About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...

Throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth, there have been some pretty strange creatures. If you tried to make a ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

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

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events, when extinction rates ... the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary ...

These all went extinct at the Permian-Triassic boundary ... Scientists agree that Earth has seen five mass extinction events in its history, with the end Permian being the worst.

This rapid change of apex predators shows the instability and ecological turmoil of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Fossils reveal the predator's desperate struggle to survive Earth's worst ...

The largest of these occurred about 250 million years ago and is often called the P-Tr or Permian-Triassic extinction event; various mechanisms, ranging from increased volcanic eruptions to a drastic ...

(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 ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...