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

A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

Other Permian detectives suspect the killer oozed ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time? I remembered the acid-tolerant ...

Mass extinctions are evolutionary turning points — brief moments on a geologic time scale that drastically change the course of life on earth. One moment in particular stands out. The Permian-Triassic ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating than the one ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...

Of the five mass extinctions, the Permian-Triassic is the only one that wiped out large numbers of insect species. Marine ecosystems took four to eight million years to recover. (Find out more ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, ...

But the Permian mass extinction event didn’t occur overnight. Instead, it unfurled over 1 million years, leading researchers to call the event “the Great Dying.” The fossil record acts like ...

It was the third mass extinction, known as the latest Permian mass extinction, and it was the largest of the five or six the Earth has undergone. A paper published in Nature Communications by ...

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 ...