The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

Another significant aspect of the extinction event is the role of euxinia ... a two-pronged kill mechanism that contributed to the end-Triassic mass extinction. This mechanism involved both ...

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded in this road cut suggest that synapsids took a savage hit at the end ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events ... These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic ...

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest extinction ... This not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

The disaster wasn’t a single event, but actually a period of ... Among the most significant mysteries of the end-Triassic extinction, however, is why dinosaurs and pterosaurs fared so much ...

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 ...

By the end of the period ... preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ammonites, mollusks, and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were ...