Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago

Mystery Fossils Link Fungi to Ancient Mass Extinction
by Ars Technica, Wired, August 18, 2011, 
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/permian-triassic-fungus/

Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction 
250 Million Years Ago, RedOrbit, August 8, 2011
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2092060/fungi_helped_destroy_forests_during_mass_extinction_250_million_years

The papers are:

Visscher, H., M. A. Sephton, and C. V. Looy, 2011, 
Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction 
250 Million Years Ago. Geology. vol. 39; no. 9, 
pp. 883-886. 
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/9/883

Huang, C., J. Tong, L. Hinnov and Z. Q. Chen, 2011,
Did the great dying of life take 700 k.y.? Evidence 
from global astronomical correlation of the 
Permian-Triassic boundary interval. Geology, vol. 39,
no. 8, p. 779-782.
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/8/779

Yours,

Paul H.