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 ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

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 ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event. It is referred to as the Permian ... the land mass ...

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape after the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying ... but on land you're able to escape some of the effects," he said. These findings have led to some debate over whether the ...

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological ...