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

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 ...

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 ...

That agenda is unwelcome news for a small lizard in West Texas. The dunes sagebrush lizard — a tan, scaly reptile measuring ...

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 ...

Growth in oil output from the U.S. Permian basin, the country's top oilfield, is expected to slow by at least 25% this year ...

They then compared their model to the magnitude of past mass extinctions captured in the fossil record, especially to the End-Permian Extinction - Earth's deadliest extinction event so far.

The lizard lives in a very small area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico overlaying a part of the Permian Basin, which over the last ... This destruction in turn is the main cause of the ...

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 ...