In Earth's largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover
Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 07:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago—one of the great turnovers of life on Earth—appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and in the sea, according to newly redated fossils beds from South Africa and Australia.