For years scientists have known that the deep ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow water, in places like reefs. In 1996 English geologists Paul Wignall ...
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100,000 billion metric tons of CO2 choked Earth’s life 252 million years agoThe Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 million ...
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.
A field photograph documenting rock sample collection in the scorching desert ... the end-Permian extinction, the Turpan-Hami Basin provided a safe haven for terrestrial life, demonstrating ...
(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...
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The 'Great Dying' — the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history — didn’t reach this isolated spot in ChinaThe mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been ... where it seems that plants ...
A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological ...
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