Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

The Permian Extinction was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet, one that took place over ...

The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end. This mass extinction almost ended life on Earth as we know it.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

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 ...

Marine biodiversity patterns changed rapidly during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, altering the latitudinal diversity gradient for 5 million years, according to a study.

The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago was the greatest die-off in Earth's history. The cataclysm killed as much as 95 percent of the planet's species.

About 90 per cent of all the living things on the planet were wiped out in the Permian mass extinction – described in a 2005 book called When Life Nearly Died – for reasons that have been long ...

This mass extinction almost ended life on Earth as we know it. Skip to content. ... She believes that the Permian extinction was caused by acid rain following a massive release of volcanic gases.