252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today
If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.
Tag: permian
Fossil Friday: Helicoprion
Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like, cartilaginous fish that lived from the early Permian (~290 m.y. ago) all through ...
Treasure trove of Permian fossils discovered in Brazil
The fossils were discovered in the Parnaiba Basin of north-eastern Brazil, and are some 278 million years old, corresponding to ...
We’re heading towards a sixth major extinction
Species on Earth are disappearing at a never-before seen rate in human history. The stark threat hangs over all species ...
300 million year old shark nursery found
Imagine salmon in reverse: long-snouted Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater swamps to a tropical coastline to spawn 310 million ...
Bus sized Triassic marine monster sheds light on ecosystems
A new species of "sea monster" was unearther in Nevada - a predator so fierce that it often hunted prey ...
During the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history the world’s oceans reached 40°C – lethally hot
Between 247 to 252 million years ago, Earth life was going through quite possibly its most dire time. During this ...
Earth took 10 million years to recover from biggest extinction
Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth passed through its toughest time so far, as 96% of all marine ...
Fossil magnetism proves mass extinction theory
The mass extinction theory is... a theory, because there are still some blanks left in to fill by scientists; of ...
How to recover from a mass extinction
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, and event caused a mass extinction which killed over ...
