About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time?

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

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

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events ... The two biggest extinctions were at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago, and at the end of the Cretaceous ...

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 ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic ... presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the planet-altering activities of ...

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 ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

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 ...