"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

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 ...

Copper-rich minerals indicating widespread volcanic activity at the end-Permian mass extinction in different regions in southern China. The minerals are all copper sulfides, mostly Malachite —the ...

(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% ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel back in time even further to ...

Paleontologist Doug Erwin answered selected viewer questions about the Permian and other mass extinctions on November 28, 2006. Please note we are no longer accepting questions, but see our links ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. As humanity's greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world's oceans ...