"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time? I remembered the acid-tolerant ...

It is widely accepted that we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem ...

The first few million years of the Triassic is marked by an absence of coals. This is thought to be related to the mass extinction that happened and the time it took for the recovery of plants.' This ...

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 ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other life. As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...

Fossil evidence from North China indicates that certain ecosystems may have rebounded within just two million years after the ...

“Any species needing to survive a mass extinction like this would have to deal with multiple stressors,” Petryshyn says, and the combination of changes might have been too much for many ...