The Permian extinction reminds him of Agatha ... Lystrosaurus, the synapsid that inherited the barren world of the Triassic, stared out empty-eyed. With its competition gone, Lystrosaurus spread ...

Travel back in time even further to around 250 million years ago, and the Great Dying – more formally known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event – wiped out members of all classes of life.

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 ...

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

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen, in which 70 per cent of species on land disappeared along with ...

Which dinosaurs had feathers? Were they using them to fly? And once and for all – what are those ancient dinosaurs' ...

“Other global sections with records for the end-Permian extinction with reliable time constraints usually have a very low ... it yielded but also in how long it took for Earth’s biodiversity to ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other reef ...

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 ...

Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area that today includes northern South America and northern Africa’ ...