The Permian Mass Extinction

The Permian Mass Extinction which ocurred 250 million years ago, wiped out 95% of the existing species, and began the age of the Dinosaurs.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Permian
• Mass
• Extinction
• Siberian
• Traps
• Methane
• Hydrate
• Global
• Warming
• Therapsid

[StarSpawn06]

isn't it ironic ?

let's say the KT asteroid never happened,

millions of years later there'd probably be feathered dudes logging on to Youtube, watching vids like this, and commenting, "thank the Permian extinction, if not for that, we'd all be ruled by mammals now"

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[iceshadow42]

Replace "Lava" with "humans" and we are entering the end of the Permian era. Luckily we can stop this climate change because humans are much smarter than a bunch of melted rock, right?

...Right?

[unyxe]

idk why im here i just have hw about this im not used to big words AAAAHAHHUIFDAHSDIHAODHSOKNDJCH­NSIUAFHS

[lmjhoney]

@7lllll Interesting idea. Sadly the products of burning it are also very bad for the environment.

[TurokSwe]

@uknowispeaksense If that was the case then niether me or you would probably send in replies to each other now. I will simply dont believe you until you show me this "overwhelming weight of evidence". Peer reviewed papers (in other words parts of reality combined with human imagination) doesnt make it real, what makes it real is actual evidence. I believe I can accept real evidence. These are some of my greatest interests, and this doesnt change the fact that there are no proof for extinction.

[uknowispeaksense]

@TurokSwe The weight of evidence of mass-extinction events is overwhelming. There are hundreds, if not thousands of peer reviewed papers on subjects in areas like fossils, geochemical, atmospheric science, paleobiogeography and a dozen other areas that all point to these events as having happened. If that isn't "proof" enough for u, then u will never accept it. Go to google scholar and start searching and reading. I would be keen to know what evidence it would take for u to accept?

[Mrdabizworkz]

If we get an ice age to refreeze the methane, then it will be the eighth known ice age for humans. We only must endure the travel and set up upon new shoals in comfortable living zones. Quick resettlement and peace would surely abide when the times comes.

[Mrdabizworkz]

I wonder how much the Pacific atomic bomb testing had to do with today's methane releases?

[TurokSwe]

@SakuraMochiKitty No, there are no kinds of actual proof for extinction, there have probably never been. A simple lecture of theories I have already heard about doesnt make it proof. If there actually exists real proof then I suppose soemone would tell me, but no one has so far never come forward with any such proof, just theories and nothing really conclusive to support it. Peace!

[SakuraMochiKitty]

@232323C There were two mass extinctions: the Permian and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Dinosaurs went extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction. The Permian mass extinction wiped out trilobites, some amphibians, and many marine organisms such as corals and mollusks.

[SakuraMochiKitty]

@TurokSwe Yes, there IS proof of extinctions. Trilobites and many marine organisms went extinct during the Permian mass extinction. Dinosaurs went extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction. The Ediacaran fauna went extinct 600 million years ago and did not leave behind any descendants whatsoever--their fossils don't look like anything in the modern world.

[OxfordThatcher]

I am sure it was an episode of BBC Horizon called 'The Day The Earth Nearly Died' First shown: Thursday 5 December 2002.