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

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

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 ...

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

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

Giant mass extinction quicker than previously thought: End-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 02 ...

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

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.

Previous estimates suggested this crisis, known as the end-Capitanian, end-Guadalupian or mid-Permian mass extinction, eliminated at least 56 percent of land plant species and about 58 percent of ...

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.