when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the ...

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

During the Permian-Triassic extinction, Inostrancevia, a saber-toothed predator, emerged as a dominant force. Fossils discovered in Russia and South Africa reveal its transcontinental existence ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...