Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research.
Tag: Permian-Triassic extinction
New study reveals biodiversity loss drove ecological collapse after the “Great Dying”
By exploring the stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, researchers gain insights into modern biodiversity crisis
FSU researchers find oxygen spike coincided with ancient global extinction
Florida State University researchers have found that the extinction at the end of the Permian period coincided with a sudden spike and subsequent drop in the ocean’s oxygen content. Their findings were published in Nature Geoscience.