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 ...

The Permian period was one of the most extreme and unforgiving chapters in Earth’s history. In this video, we dive into the harsh realities of life during the Permian – from brutal climate swings and ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating than the one ...

As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated Southern Africa’s domain. By Jeanne Timmons Some 252 million years ago ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists ...

The so-called Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period around 252 million years ... major groups of organisms made it through the mass extinction, many others that had been abundant before ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating, than the one ...

A long time ago the carbon was rock, buried in the earth as securely as a secret. Then an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale began. The rocks burned, and the atoms inside them ...