About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub ... and the Great Dying – more formally known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event – wiped out members of all classes of life.

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time ... the temporal relationship between end-Triassic extinction and the Central Atlantic magmatic ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events ... the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary.

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 ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction ... ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

The Triassic closed in the same way it began. Something—perhaps a volcanic belch or an asteroid collision—caused another mass extinction. Dinosaurs, however, survived and went on to dominate ...