The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why
Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty of land vertebrates. "We've found fossils of many ...
Natural History Museum%2c London5 年
The Triassic Period: the rise of the dinosaurs
The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place roughly 252 million years ago and was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet. It represents ...
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Mega El Niños Could Have Inflamed Earth's Most Devastating Extinction
This 'Great Dying' appears to have been driven by a complex ... eons leading up to the catastrophic extinctions that saw the Permian give way to the first age of the dinosaurs, the Triassic.