That's difficult—sediments containing fossils from the end of ... spilling into shallow water as sea levels rose and smothering marine life. Permian oceans also might have been poisoned with ...

The fossils were thought to be nummulites, but afterwards they were shown to be crinoid ossicles of uncertain age. Fifty years later, E. J. Garwood found that the high range bordering Sikkim to ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

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“But paleontologists have long suspected there were therapsids before the middle Permian — we just didn’t find their fossils yet. This fossil is the most promising candidate for an early ...

The environment also became more hospitable, with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying ... until they were wiped out in the Permian extinctions about 250 million years ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period ... published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas and kept ...