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

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is revealing survivors. In what is now China, it seems that plants were able to ...

One moment in particular stands out. The Permian-Triassic extinction, aka the Great Dying, eradicated more than 90 percent of earth’s marine species and 75 percent of terrestrial species 252 million ...

Scientists believe a large volcanic eruption in southern China may have contributed to the end-Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago. Dustin Manduffie / November 17, 2021. Link copied.

The Capitanian mass extinction was once lumped in with the “Great Dying” of the end-Permian mass extinction, but the lesser-known extinction occurred 8–10 million years earlier. It may not ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

During the worst mass extinction event in Earth’s ... that marine species able to burrow into the sea floor were among the first to recover after the long silence of the End-Permian Extinction.

Great Dying debates. During the end-Permian mass extinction––also called the Great Dying–80 percent of marine species were wiped out. While most species on land did not fare much better, the ...

The scientists did detect SOME extinction in the area during that time period, but at 21 percent it was far lower than at much of the rest of the planet. Because the plant oasis persisted, it ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of ...