These Prehistoric Events Are Too Disturbing For History Books
Prehistoric Dude
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These Prehistoric Events Are Too Disturbing For History Books
Approximately 252 million years ago, something unfolded across the face of this planet so catastrophic, so total in its destruction, that the scientists who first studied its aftermath in the geological record struggled to accept that any world could endure it and continue. The evidence was preserved in a thin, dark band of rock, a geological boundary now known as the Permian-Triassic interface, and what it recorded was not merely a mass extinction. It was, by every measurable standard, the closest Earth has ever come to becoming a permanently silent, lifeless world. Paleontologist Michael Benton of the University of Bristol, one of the foremost authorities on this event, has described it plainly as the crisis that came closer than any other to ending complex life on Earth entirely.
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These Prehistoric Events Are Too Disturbing For History Books
Prehistoric Dude
4,826 views
These Prehistoric Events Are Too Disturbing For History Books
Approximately 252 million years ago, something unfolded across the face of this planet so catastrophic, so total in its destruction, that the scientists who first studied its aftermath in the geological record struggled to accept that any world could endure it and continue. The evidence was preserved in a thin, dark band of rock, a geological boundary now known as the Permian-Triassic interface, and what it recorded was not merely a mass extinction. It was, by every measurable standard, the closest Earth has ever come to becoming a permanently silent, lifeless world. Paleontologist Michael Benton of the University of Bristol, one of the foremost authorities on this event, has described it plainly as the crisis that came closer than any other to ending complex life on Earth entirely.