This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

Many scientists think a key culprit was widespread volcanic activity. Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction ...

Image by jarous via Depositphotos. Horseshoe crabs are living fossils, having existed for over 450 million years. These ancient arthropods have survived multiple mass extinction events, including the ...

We hope to have demonstrated that trying to compare or equate the end-Permian marine invertebrate mass extinction in terms of taxonomic diversity dynamics with the Permo-Triassic plant biotic crisis ...

FIGURE 3. Stratigraphic distribution of patterns of ∑REE, δEu, δCe and Zr/Hf in all coal samples from Yantang Mine, Xuanwei, Yunnan. FIGURE 5. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns of the tonsteins in the ...

help scientists recognize patterns in how species respond to environmental changes. From the Ordovician-Silurian extinction (which eliminated 85% of marine species) to the Cretaceous-Paleogene event ...

The Triassic-Jurassic extinction was not as rapid or violent in its consequences as the asteroid impact of 66 million years ago. So far as paleontologists have been able to reconstruct the ancient ...

Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED ...