About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... identify the killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet. The most famous die ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

There have been at least five mass extinctions, and maybe many more, but the fossil record is unclear. The two biggest extinctions were at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic ... presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the planet-altering activities of ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying ... CO2 got as high as 2,500 parts per million (ppm) in this period, compared with current levels of 425 ppm.

China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Journal Science Advances Funder National Natural Science Foundation 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 ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, the planet was reeling from ... the presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the planet-altering activities of billions ...