During the Permian era, animal and plant life were dispersed broadly across Pangea, and a new study supports the idea that there was an isolated desert in the middle of Pangea with its own fauna.

J. W. Beede, Fauna of the Permian of the Central United States. Part I, Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 17 (1899 - 1900), pp. 185-189 ...

Permian oceans also might have been poisoned with CO2, according to Andrew Knoll, a paleobiologist at Harvard. Oceanic bacteria eat organic matter, producing bicarbonate as a digestive by-product.

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 years ago. It was the deadliest mass ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, refers to a time 252 million years ago when 90% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species died out.

The Permian period, which ended in the largest mass extinction the Earth has ever known, began about 299 million years ago. The emerging supercontinent of Pangaea presented severe extremes of ...

Over 90% of marine species were lost during the end-Permian extinction. Fossil data show that the crisis in China was marked by two distinct phases of marine extinction separated by a 180,000-year ...

The county has its own history with discovery of Permian-era fossils. News Sports ... And that is a “crucial part of building a more holistic picture of the environment and fauna at that time in ...

Chinese archaeologists on Friday announced the significant discovery of an early Permian tetrapod track assemblage known as the Mentougou fauna in the suburb of Beijing. Dating back approximately ...

Chinese archaeologists on Friday announced the significant discovery of an early Permian tetrapod track assemblage known as the Mentougou fauna in the suburb of Beijing. Dating back approximately ...