The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...

The end-Permian mass extinction ... even suggest that certain Mesozoic plants existed before the extinction event, pointing ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth's history. What followed was a ...

Survivors of the extinction event, though few, eventually repopulated the earth. These organisms are the ancestors of every living thing today. To paleontologists, the End-Permian Mass Extinction is ...

Two new papers by different teams shed new light on the event, revealing a pattern ... well before the more famous “Great Dying” end-Permian extinction, which occurred 252 million years ...

Today, an El Niño event, which affects wind patterns and ... plants or animals that could do that.” A key reason the end-Permian extinction was so dire was because the mega El Niños created ...

These events took place in an event known as the End-Permian Extinction, or the Great Dying. Over tens of thousands of years, between the birth of the supercontinent Pangea in the Permian period ...

Something known as a hyperthermal event — a sudden warming of the ... The biggest mass cataclysm of all time, called the end-Permian extinction, occurred 252 million years ago.

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian ... during the mass extinction period. The findings challenge one prevailing theory ...

The cause of this devasting event is still debated ... oceans during the Capitanian leading up to the ultimate end-Permian mass extinction. In stage 1, the study site was part of a carbonate ...