A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...
The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...
Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.
Crucial insights from the Permian period have arrived from Tanzania and Zambia. These insights have been explained in a series of studies published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The ...