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The 'Great Dying' — the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history — didn’t reach this isolated spot in China
The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.
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This dinosaur walked on Earth when just one big supercontinent existed
A 233-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has been discovered in Brazil and is being dubbed as the oldest fossil of the gigantic creatures in the world. Paleontologists say that the carnivorous ...
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Paleo Schematic (IMAGE)
This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil record (blue dots). A greater ...