Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna have uncovered how plants ... during the "Late Smithian Thermal ...
"Our study links land plant macrofossil assemblages and numerical simulations describing possible climates from the late Permian to the early Triassic. We show that a shift from a cold climatic ...
This analysis revealed a major shift in plant biomes coinciding with the Permian-Triassic Boundary, indicating a dramatic transition from cold to warm. The late Permian was cold, while the early ...
Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...
The Black Triangle gets its name from the coal burned by nearby power plants. Decades of acid rain ... realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep ...
However, having arrived late-morning in mid-April ... whose ancestors emerged on the planet 250 million years ago in the Triassic Period, were thriving all around me. As I continued riding ...
The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history.
The Painted Desert isn’t just another Instagram backdrop. Beyond the tourist spots and familiar viewpoints, this 93,500-acre ...
The researchers discovered that even higher temperatures during the ‘Late ... us that plants are unsung heroes of life on Earth—then, now, and in the future. Reference: “Age-controlled south polar ...