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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists couldn't identify. This could be caused by ...

A new study reveals how ancient plant ecosystems recovered from the End-Permian ... devastated landscape after the extinction ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.

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 ...

Scientists later confirmed these were fossilized tracks of five prehistoric species from the Permian Period. The fossils tell the tale of a world on the brink. During the Permian Period ...