She believes that the Permian extinction was caused by acid rain following ... a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty of land vertebrates. "We've found fossils of ...

Figuring out what caused these mass extinctions has attracted a great deal of scientific interest ... the Emeishan region that span the middle Permian 4. The lower parts of these sections are ...

Travel back in time even further to around 250 million years ago, and the Great Dying – more formally known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event – wiped out members of all classes of life.

Paleontologist Doug Erwin answered selected viewer questions about the Permian and other mass ... just 2 percent to die off during the great mass extinctions. But mass extinctions are also a ...

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 ...

“As we look closer at the geologic record at the time of the great extinction, we are finding that the end-Permian global environmental disaster may have had multiple causes among marine and ...

Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small ... and the most -lethal of them, the Permian-Triassic extinction around 252 million years ...

(CN) — A rapid rise in CO2 emissions primarily released by the Siberian Traps volcanism drove the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago which obliterated 90% of all marine species and 70% ...

Life that survived the so-called Great Dying repopulated the planet ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though ...

Out of the previous five extinctions, the most famous is the Permian extinction - the worst ... earning it the nickname "The Great Dying." Clues from the fossil record give us information about ...