About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as ...

The region's ancient landscape revealed a wealth of fossilized ... painting a vivid picture of life during the Permian period. The exploration of the site required innovative techniques.

The Permian period’s mass extinction had wiped out ... the Triassic – Jurassic and Cretaceous – and ruled Earth’s landscape for 165 million years. Some, like the Tyrannosaurus rex, emerged ...

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

The Great Dying marks the transition from the Permian to the Triassic period, so it’s often referred to as the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, or the Permian-Triassic Boundary. If “Triassic ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...