Other Permian detectives suspect the killer oozed ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time? I remembered the acid-tolerant ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time, 260 million years ago. The close association of this event with an outpouring of lava, initially into ...

However, the largest mass extinction is attributed to the Permian, during which it is estimated that >95% of all life on Earth was eradicated. The cause of this devasting event is still debated ...

Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below Earth's surface, contributing to prolonged warming.

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 ...

“During the late Permian, approximately 253 million years ... “However, during the Permo-Triassic mass extinction, the environment became unpredictable. Carbon dioxide levels increased ...

So what did cause the greatest mass extinction in the past 600 million ... that so many different things were happening in the Late Permian—massive volcanism, changes in ocean and atmospheric ...

Mass extinctions are defined by the loss of a ... when 75% of all species disappearance. At the end of the Permian some 250 million years ago, the worst extinction event so far with 96% of all ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five ... rock that was built up over the course of the late Permian through to the early Triassic; the Great Dying can be marked ...