The Permian extinction saw the loss of 80 to 96 percent of all marine species. In the Cretaceous event, perhaps 60 to 75 percent of marine species disappeared. What caused these immense die-offs?

The Great Dying marks the transition from the Permian to the Triassic period, so it’s often referred to as the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, or the Permian-Triassic Boundary. If “Triassic ...

The dinosaur extinction is widely known, but the end-Permian mass extinction was an even more devastating event in Earth’s ...

This new map of the megaripples can help predict the impact of future tsunamis, and to better understand the dinosaur extinction event, scientists say. The Independent is the world’s most free ...

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China ...

Some fossil discoveries even suggest that certain Mesozoic plants existed before the extinction event, pointing to uninterrupted evolution. The South Taodonggou section in Xinjiang offers a unique ...