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 ...

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 ...

(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% ...

This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever ... This not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it was such a serious catastrophe that it is used ...

One of the most significant mass extinctions in Earth's history is the Permian–Triassic extinction ... through evolutionary changes. Extinction: The end of an organism or a group of organisms ...

Her interest in field­-based research led her to the laboratory of David Bottjer at the University of Southern California, where she studied the aftermath of the end-­Permian mass extinction event.

By the end of the period 199 million years ago ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other reef-building ...