Unearthing Africa’s Permian Past For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and analyzing fossils in Africa to better understand the Permian, a geologic period that lasted from 299 to 252 million years ago and ended with the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history. The effort, led by researchers [...]from SciTechDaily https://ift.tt/T93n78V