About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...

But we haven't found any such simple solution to the Permo-Triassic mass extinction, at least not yet. Q: I heard that accelerated continental drift occurred in the Cambrian and Permian Periods.

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events ... the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary.

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub ... and the Great Dying – more formally known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event – wiped out members of all classes of life.

This enables reliable estimation of the timeline of the end-Permian mass extinction,” Li wrote in an email ... “Studies on the early Triassic recovery suggest that the ecosystem did not fully recover ...

The Triassic closed in the same way it began. Something—perhaps a volcanic belch or an asteroid collision—caused another mass extinction. Dinosaurs, however, survived and went on to dominate ...

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 ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time ... the temporal relationship between end-Triassic extinction and the Central Atlantic magmatic ...

It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction ... ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.