Mysterious climate behavior during Earth's most severe mass extinction event explained
The end-Permian mass extinction is the most severe mass extinction event ever recorded, during which ~80% of marine species went extinct.
The end-Permian mass extinction is the most severe mass extinction event ever recorded, during which ~80% of marine species went extinct.
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Paleontologists in the U.K. and China have shown that the natural world bounced back vigorously following the End-Permian Extinction.
Evolution
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The end-Permian extinction (EPE) was the greatest biotic crisis in Earth's history, eliminating more than 90% of species in the oceans and more than 70% of species on land.
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It's around this time every year that we start to remember the existence of pollen, the microscopic reproductive cells of cone-bearing and flowering plants. Airborne pollen may induce annoying congestion for some, but a new ...
Paleontology & Fossils
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A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago. Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano eruptions produced a "volcanic ...
Earth Sciences
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The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) led to a severe terrestrial ecosystem collapse. Insects have diversified over the past approximately 400 million years and account for roughly half of the biodiversity on Earth today. ...
Ecology
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The Permian extinction, also called Permian-Triassic extinction or end-Permian extinction is the most severe biodiversity loss in Earth's history. According to Britannica, this extinction was characterized by the elimination ...
Earth Sciences
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Wildfire is an important part of the terrestrial ecosystem. It plays a significant role in many environmental and evolutionary innovations in geological history.
Earth Sciences
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Life on Earth is most diverse at the equator. This pattern, where species biodiversity increases as we move through the tropics towards the equator, is seen on land and in the oceans, and has been documented across a broad ...
Plants & Animals
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The most severe mass extinction event in the past 540 million years eliminated more than 90 percent of Earth's marine species and 75 percent of terrestrial species. Although scientists had previously hypothesized that the ...
Earth Sciences
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