Siberian Traps likely culprit for end-Permian extinction
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 05:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth collapsed in spectacular and unprecedented fashion, as more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species disappeared in a geological instant. The so-called end-Permian mass extinction—or more commonly, the "Great Dying"—remains the most severe extinction event in Earth's history.