That's difficult—sediments containing fossils from the end of the ... see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country ...

The end-Permian mass extinction occurred around ... with only sparse and simple life remaining. The fossils from this period indicate a monospecific community, meaning that only a single type ...

The fossils found in the Italian Alps offer more than just a window into an ancient world-they provide valuable lessons for today. By studying the Permian period's ecosystems, scientists can ...

For millions of years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the same few marine survivor species show up as fossils all over the planet. A new study reveals what drove this global biological ...

The fossil seems to date back toward the end of the Carboniferous period and into the Permian period, which took place about 300 million years ago, Calder told the news agency. Those time periods ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils ... the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago.

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Credit: NIGPAS Conifer trunk fossil recovered from the onset of the end-Permian mass extinction in ... the marine extinction rate during the same period. This conclusion was based on the discovery ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit ... Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas ...

In addition to the fossil record, scientists understand ... Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in ...