To understand this extinction, I wanted first to get ... to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Journal Science Advances Funder National Natural Science Foundation of ...

This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction.

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Journal Science Advances Funder National Natural Science Foundation of ...