She wants to compare tree pollen from a modern forest killed by acid rain with fossil pollen found in Permian rocks. Like a homicide detective at a crime scene, Looy sealed the cone in a plastic ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

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

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from marine life.

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

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

More information: Comparison between plant fossil assemblages across the Permian-Triassic Boundary and simulated biomes, Frontiers in Earth Science (2025). DOI: 10.3389/feart.2025.1520846 ...

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 end-Permian event was the worst mass extinction of all time. But the impacts of this event for life on land have been elusive. By examining fossil plants and rocks from eastern Australia's ...