The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...

Travel back in time even further to around 250 million years ago, and the Great Dying – more formally known as the ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events, when extinction rates ... the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time, 260 million years ago. The close association of this event with an outpouring of lava, initially into ...

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen, in which 70 per cent of species on land disappeared along with ...

This shows paleogeography during the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 252 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Many scientists think a key culprit was widespread volcanic activity. Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction ...

The Triassic-Jurassic transition, occurring around 202 million years ago, marks a significant period in Earth's history characterized by a mass extinction event that led to the disappearance of ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other ...