The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...

(pensive music) During the Permian period, this reef extended hundreds ... Somewhere between 80 to 96% of animal groups went extinct. There was no single cataclysmic event that triggered the ...

Various video games feature extinct animals, predominantly dinosaurs, with creative interpretations mixing fact and fiction.

This desert landscape with mountains, canyons, and the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef was once a thriving sea.

Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ... survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian ...

Its lineage dates back about 260 million to 270 million years to the Late Permian period. The oldest fossils ... have their nests raided by vertebrate animals like skunks, and the CO2 response ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike.

One of them was Inostrancevia, a gruesome top predator that survived for a brief period amidst the turmoil. Daily Paleo ; Inostrancevia alexandriFrom Late Permian Russia, Inostrancevia is the ...

About 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period, lava poured out during ... wiping out three-quarters of the plant and animal species when an asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico just ...

Some of these animals are extinct now. A lot of reasons are behind the extinction of animals. Prehistoric battle between a Permian period reptile and giant dragonfly. Image by Andrew via DallE But ...

Towering above the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas and southern New Mexico, the Guadalupe Mountains are part of one of the world’s best-preserved fossil reefs from the Permian Period. This hardened ...