or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing ...

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

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The researchers found an abundance of plant fossils dating back to that ... fairly consistent rainfall during the mass extinction period. The findings challenge one prevailing theory about the Permian ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.

However, many plants survived ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists couldn ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Data on how plants fared following the end-Permian extinction are plentiful ... How hot it got in Sydney is not known, but this scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years and made life ...

Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated ... About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species.

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This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 ... came to look like those from before the end-Permian collapse. But crucially, the plant species that made up the new forests were completely ...

Ginkgo biloba, often referred to simply as ginkgo or the maidenhair tree, is a living fossil that has captivated humanity for millennia. This unique species of gymnosperm tree, native to East Asia, is ...