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One of the most dramatic and mysterious events in the history of life, the so-called "Great Dying" of animals and plants some 250 million years ago, continues to fas...
One of the most dramatic and mysterious events in the history of life, the so-called "Great Dying" of animals and plants some 250 million years ago, continues to fascinate and baffle scientists. Of the five or so mass extinctions recorded in Earth's fossils, this one at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic was the most catastrophic.
More than half of the families of living things died out, and as many as 90 to 96 percent of the planet's marine species were lost. At the same time, perhaps 70 percent of the land's reptile, amphibian, insect, and plants species went extinct.
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It was ugly. The animals that evolved in the wake of the crisis are barrel-chested - suggesting that the atmosphere was oxygen-deficient (compared to today). Millions of years - but they left a record. Go figure - well, volcanics are a good suspect, not a comet: volcanoes spew for K's of years, a comet hits ONCE...
wow! It always baffles me when I think that our ancestors where in the lucky 5% percent that that survived, our ancestors have survived at least 2 mass extinctions!
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"Transitional Fossils in Evolution pt. 1 of 4'