About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... in time, heading for the Permian's conclusion. If we had driven here before the extinction, we would have seen animals as abundant ...

Learn more about a time period marked ... of all prehistoric animals. More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian ... at this time, such as aetosaurs,' says ...

This period ... that time period, but at 21 percent it was far lower than at much of the rest of the planet. Because the plant oasis persisted, it presented a welcome place for animals to thrive ...

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth ... of Earth's geography at that time with plant fossil data, assigning ...

The findings challenge one prevailing theory about the Permian ... during that time period, but at 21 percent it was far lower than at much of the rest of the planet. Because the plant oasis persisted ...

or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The research, published in Science Advances, challenges ...