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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