An Early Mass Extinction Event Cooked Our Planet and Erased Most Life
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.
Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.
Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...
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The 'Great Dying' — the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history — didn’t reach this isolated spot in China
The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty of land vertebrates. "We've found fossils of many ...
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100,000 billion metric tons of CO2 choked Earth’s life 252 million years ago
Researchers led by Dr. Maura Brunetti at the University of Geneva studied fossilized plant remains, using spores, pollen, and ...
The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
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Plants Battled for Millions After Climate Catastrophe
Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...
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A Life Oasis Protected Plants During the Permian Mass Extinction Event
Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...