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After years of digging across Africa, scientists have built a clearer picture of life just before Earth’s worst die-off. New fossils reveal bustling ecosystems in southern Pangea, from burrowers to tusked plant-eaters to saber-toothed hunters. The fossils show which species thrived before the “Great Dying” and hint at why so many vanished. A team led by researchers at the University …

In a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international team of paleontologists has uncovered a rich treasure trove of Permian fossils from southern Africa. These fossils, excavated over 15 years, offer unprecedented insights into the life forms that inhabited Earth just before the planet’s largest mass extinction, known as the Great Dying. This extinction event occurred …

Paleontologists have identified the myriad of animals — saber-toothed predators, burrowing foragers and a large, salamander-like creature — that thrived in southern Pangea just before the end-Permian mass extinction, about 252 million years ago. An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the Late Permian epoch in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several …

Mass Extinction Unleashed a 5-Million-Year Heatwave. Here’s What Triggered It  SciTechDaily The Great Dying  Honi Soit The 5-Million-Year Heatwave That Followed Earth’s Deadliest Extinction: Here’s What Triggered It  The Daily Galaxy Mega volcanoes, asteroid impacts and global cooling: The five deadly mass extinctions that changed life on Earth as we know it forever  BBC Wildlife Magazine Source link

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment provides a stark warning about the ocean’s future: the looming oxygen crisis may threaten key marine species, including the crucial lanternfish. Using over 10,000 years of fossil records, researchers have found that lanternfish populations drastically declined whenever oxygen levels in the ocean fell below a critical threshold. As ocean temperatures rise …

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Volcanoes are responsible for some of the greatest bouts of biological devastation in Earth’s history. A new study aims to determine whether giant volcanic eruptions are related to BLOBS—mobile basal structures related to well-known large low-shear-velocity …