Fresh fossil finds in Africa shed light on the era before Earth’s largest mass extinction

By James Urton | University of Washington on Aug 13, 2025   Featured, Science/Education  

An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth’s history that began 299 million years ago and ended 252 million years ago with our planet’s largest and most devastating mass extinction. Led by researchers at the […]