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 ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

A key reason the end-Permian extinction was so dire was because the mega El Niños created incredibly warm conditions in the ...

hotter than normal Around 90% of all species alive at the time may have gone extinct during the end-Permian extinction. Although the volcanic eruptions theory seemed to be a plausible explanation ...

when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the ...

They then compared their model to the magnitude of past mass extinctions captured in the fossil record, especially to the End-Permian Extinction - Earth's deadliest extinction event so far.

Figure 1 Figure 1: Explosions in the middle Permian. In an earlier evaluation ... re-evaluated the temporal relationship between end-Triassic extinction and the Central Atlantic magmatic province ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...