The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...
Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Researchers led by Dr. Maura Brunetti at the University of Geneva studied fossilized plant remains, using spores, pollen, and ...
When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...
a Great Dying. How could that come to be? There are many factors. There is the threat to agriculture if low yields put small farms, cooperatives, and even empires of agribusinesses underwater (to ...
The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place roughly 252 million years ago and was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet. It represents ...