About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time?

Researchers from Nanjing University in China discovered some imperative insights from the end-Permian mass extinction, which was the most severe ecological event in the Phanerozoic approximately ...

Some researchers today think we’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction and that the end-Permian extinction may hold ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events, when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time ... evaluated the temporal relationship between end-Triassic extinction and the Central Atlantic ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

Extinction is a natural part of life on Earth. But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a ...

It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction ... ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

Her interest in field­-based research led her to the laboratory of David Bottjer at the University of Southern California, where she studied the aftermath of the end-­Permian mass extinction event.

The lizard lives in a very small area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico overlaying a part of the Permian Basin, which over the last ... This destruction in turn is the main cause of the ...