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

Rocks of that age contain traces of an asteroid that struck Earth, generating catastrophic events ... the end of the Permian are rare and often inaccessible. One site that preserves the ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian ... during the mass extinction period. The findings challenge one prevailing theory ...

This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen ... This not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it was such a serious catastrophe that it ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape after the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological ...

It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction ... years for the planet to recover. The second extinction event of the Mesozoic Era is the end-Triassic extinction or the Triassic-Jurassic ...

During the Permian-Triassic extinction, Inostrancevia, a saber-toothed predator, emerged as a dominant force. Fossils discovered in Russia and South A ...

This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction.

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...