The project began with the collection of fine-grained shale—a sedimentary rock type rich in organic matter—from deep within ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

In the heart of peninsular India, beneath the layers of time and rock in the Godavari Basin, lies a charred archive of Earth's fiery past. Scientists have now opened that archive using a powerful ...

The two biggest extinctions were at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ... Sea levels were dropping, causing changes to climate and vegetation that would severely affect ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some ... generating catastrophic events from global wildfires to climate change. But the Permian detectives are ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction eliminated almost 90 percent of all species. The devastating loss came after violent volcanic ...

During the Permian Period, rapid global warming led to a mass extinction that wiped out 90% of Earth's species, eerily paralleling today’s climate crisis. Ironically, the melting snow from ...

If humanity fails to reverse the impacts of climate change, Earth could face a mass extinction event comparable to that of the Permian Period (299 to 251 million years ago), when approximately 90 ...

During this time, the climate ranged from arid with searing ... Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history ...