Largest Mass Extinction In The History Of Our Planet Identified

Illustration depicting the onset of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction based on findings of Jurikova et al. (2020). Ocean acidification and vanishing marine life in the surface ocean caused by a large release of volcanic CO2 from Siberian Traps. Illustrated by: Dawid Adam Iurino Credit: (PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome) for Jurikova et al. (2020).

The most extensive mass extinction took place about 252 million years ago. It marked the end of the Permian Epoch and the beginning of the Triassic Epoch.

About three-quarters of all land life and about 95 percent of life in the ocean disappeared within only a few thousand years. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct and already highly developed biodiversity shrank to a minimum again, changing the course of evolution each time.

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