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Tuesday, 21 February 2017
quote [ Life appears to have recovered faster than we thought after the worst mass extinction event in our planet's history, nicknamed the Great Dying. New evidence suggests that once the Permian-Triassic extinction hit Earth 252 million years ago, life rebounded in 1 million years - a far cry from the 10 to 20 million years that previous research has indicated. ]
Make Anthropocene Great Again!
More from the NY Times: "After Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction, Life Rebounded Rapidly, Fossils Suggest".
Original paper from Science Advances: "Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna". Relevance to current environment: The Holocene Extinction. Thumb critter is from the Paris Biota. SPOILER: 1 Million Years Hence
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midden said[3] @ 11:17pm GMT on 21st February
Of course the climate is changing. And of course humans are a huge part of the cause. And humans are just as natural as anything else. And the Holocene Extinction is part of the cycle of things, like plagues that wipe out their host species then go extinct themselves. In all liklihood, the environment with all it's ever-changing biodiversity will continue on long after our species is Dust in the Wind.
Kansas - Dust in the Wind (Official Video)
(Only semi-ironically included.)
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