Animal Armageddon: The Great Dying Part 1

Experience the most destructive mass extinction of all times, the Permian extinction.

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Science & Technology

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• Animal
• Armageddon
• The
• Great
• Dying
• Part

[timtam2400]

Could you upload the American version of this episode once Fire and Ice has been done?

[Mrjohn5533]

@timtam2400 yes, next week

[mercedescl]

It's a bit "Hollywood" to suggest animals died after touched the "liquid fire". No, in a rapid lava flow, you died long before you can see the light, because the hot air will hide the flame in smoke and then fry your lung before long before you can ever see any molten rocks.

[Shirozarusama]

In this test, Gorgonopsians and Dicynodonts have failed the exam, but Thrinaxodon has succeeded!

[paulmrussell12]

@mercedescl Agreed, for the animals who died in a volcano this would be the case. But in fact going further in fact to suggest that high volcanic activity killed all animals accurately, they barely need to even show a volcano. It was the climate change and blocked light disrupting the ecosystem that gradually over one thousand millennium resulted in species perishing! Not animals being splashed by cartoon lava!

[Vegitooas]

Lava:Die die die dieall die i must eliminated all life in this foolish planet

Gorgonopsians and Dicynodonts:em aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Buuuuuuuuurn

[puncheex]

@BeastRider300: Yeah, I think that's kind of bogus. Yes, they didn't have grinding teeth, but a lot of carnivores down to today don't either.

[puncheex]

@SuperImready: It might have to do with the fact that it is buried 180 million years deeper. In fact, there have been more thenn the five extinctions they mention; there are some big ones back in the Silurian and Cambrian that we're just learning about.

[puncheex]

@mohakbijral: Well, it does invoke our emotional empathy, and keeps you from tuning in a rerun of the Beverly Hillbillies.

[puncheex]

@mothrasaurus: Uhh, no. According to current phylogenetic studies, the thrinxodont were a brother clade to ours, mammalia. What that means is that our common ancestor, a cynodont, or both our clades together, made it through the extinction together. In this "story" they're using Thrixodont more as a type-example of those that made it. Today, mammalia is the only extant clade; the rest have met with a sticky end along the way.

[puncheex]

@KadoatieXD: Umm, that would be synapsids, but that includes a lot of other animal types at the time, and ultimately all mammals as well. More specifically, they were theriodonta, but that also include all mammals.

[puncheex]

@7777neptune: Mammal-like reptiles are mammal ancestors and phylogentic brothers. They were not mammals themselves, as they lacked many of the things which make mammals such: lactation, live young, so on. They weren't reptiles except in a loose sense. Precisely, they were synapsida, brother clade to reptilia, descendant clade of amniota. They descended thru sphenacodontia (and others), then therapsida, then cynodontia, before true mammals separated from the mammal-like reptiles.

[demonella]

Oh man, this narrator is so much less irritating than the American one. Thanks! :D