To understand this extinction, I wanted first to get a sense of its scale. That's difficult—sediments containing fossils from the end of the Permian are rare and often inaccessible. One site ...

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 ...

The fossil record, however ... some 65 million years ago. The Permian extinction saw the loss of 80 to 96 percent of all marine species. In the Cretaceous event, perhaps 60 to 75 percent of ...

Only four known fossils of tardigrades have been found ... include a number of mass extinction events, including the Permian ...

This shows paleogeography during the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 252 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils ... the Permian extinction and were ...

The mass extinction at the end of the Permian (about 252 million years ago ... an early relative of mammals whose fossils are known from Russia, China, India, Africa and Antarctica.

Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area ...

He discovered in 1834 that rocks throughout Europe of a certain age contained a unique fossil fauna ... 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest ...

They then compared their model to the magnitude of past mass extinctions captured in the fossil record, especially to the End-Permian Extinction - Earth's deadliest extinction event so far.