About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense ... world's oceans until they were wiped out in the Permian extinctions about 250 million years ago.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event ... He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic ... to respond to environmental changes of the end-Permian era based on their ability to survive alterations in temperature ...

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 as the marker of the end of a geologic era, the palaeozoic era.

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...

(“New Era Helium” or the “Company”), a leading exploration and production (E&P) company sourcing helium from natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin and its joint venture ...