About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... identify the killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet. The most famous die ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global ...

There have been at least five mass extinctions, and maybe many more, but the fossil record is unclear. The two biggest extinctions were at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ...

However, even the trilobites' evolution could not help the trilobites escape the Permian Period, where there was a mass extinction of animals on Earth. During the Permian Period, there was massive ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time, 260 million years ago. The close association of this event with an outpouring of lava, initially into ...

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 percent of species, including many of the invertebrates this period is known for. Some scientists hypothesize the extinction ...

The end of the Permian Period (252 million years ago) saw yet another mass extinction event, wiping out around 96% of all marine life. But a handful of shark lineages persisted. By the Early Jurassic ...

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 ...

It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction ... period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian.

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 percent of species, including many of the invertebrates this period is known for. Some scientists hypothesize the extinction ...

More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million ... of the Cambrian saw a series of mass extinctions during which many ...

The lizard lives in a very small area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico overlaying a part of the Permian Basin, which over the last ... This destruction in turn is the main cause of the ...