In this place, seed-producing gymnosperm forests continued to grow, complemented by spore-producing ferns. "At least in this place, we don't see mass extinction of plants," study co-author Wan Yang, a ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

Terrestrial ecosystems underwent extreme shifts in composition, following extensive degassing associated with the Siberian Traps near the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). These climatic perturbations ...