Did you know life on Earth almost went completely extinct 251.9 million years ago?

Agent Abe Caprine

Agent Abe Caprine

Stole Hitler's Mercedes Bens.
kiwifarms.net
Joined
Dec 16, 2019
What happened was volcanoes erupted and these things called Siberian traps started forming. Almost everything suffocated to death. It's called the Great Dying. We lost a lot of cool things to those volcanoes erupting. Like these guys eating trees.
1665168196543.jpg
They look like bulldogs merged with a naked mole rat.

Correction: The Siberian Traps were volcanoes. The traps erupted.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Dumb
  • Agree
Reactions: Space_Dandy, Daily Affirmation, Wine em Dine em 69 em and 3 others
Solution
7.62x38mmR
False, it was a big extinction but it definitely was nowhere near wiping out life.
While diversity in terms of groups plummeted, many survived the extinction and even thrived in its immediate aftermath. Even reefs took a surprisingly low amount of time to recover, and that amount is shrinking year by year as we uncover more fossil remains from the P/T boundary

kill yourself faggot
Sort by date Sort by votes
False, it was a big extinction but it definitely was nowhere near wiping out life.
While diversity in terms of groups plummeted, many survived the extinction and even thrived in its immediate aftermath. Even reefs took a surprisingly low amount of time to recover, and that amount is shrinking year by year as we uncover more fossil remains from the P/T boundary

kill yourself faggot
 
Last edited:
  • Informative
  • Like
  • DRINK!
Reactions: Mesh Gear Fox, AMHOLIO, Space_Dandy and 9 others
Upvote 6 Downvote
Solution
These things are tiny lycopsids, i suppose Pleuromeiceans. The largest species reached around 2-3 meters in height, but smaller and younger specimens would definitely be fit for animals the size of a Dicynodont. The place they're in looks dry af, which could be a mistake if it's intended since Pleuromeians, like most lycopsids, favored humid environmnts, typically near somewhat permanent bodies of water. Their closest living relatives, Isoetaleans, typically grow in marshes and on the very shores of lakes and ponds
 
  • Informative
  • Like
  • DRINK!
Reactions: Mesh Gear Fox, AMHOLIO, MrB and 3 others
Upvote 0 Downvote
As you can see, the Pleuromeians one of the closest relatives of the Isoetaceans, quite far from the Sigillarians/Monomegasporans (trees) and all the herbaceous shit before them. There's essentially 5 different types of habits for lycopods, with only 1 still represented today :
  • Herbaceous (still alive) lycopods are in the Isoetaceae, Selaginellales, Lycopodiales and Drepanophycales. Tiny ass plants, mostly wet understory stuff, includes here the genus Hueberia
  • Pseudoherbaceous, possessing a creeping rhizome but upright woody axes ; Asteroxylaceae, Protolepidodendrales, Paurodendraceans and some miscellaneous stuff like the genus Lobodendron
  • Columnar, with a short upright and unbranched trunk, often with a tiny cone on top ; Pleuromeiaceans & Chaloneriaceans
  • Short trees, amongst the first very common trees on land ; Ulodendraceans and the genus Omprelostrobus
  • Tall trees, with scaly trunks and often several branches, which went on to form extensive tropical rainforests during the Carboniferous ; Sigillarians and Monomegasporans

    This could seem like a lot of extinct shit and while it is true, most of these families were already long gone by the Late Permian and all those alive at the time (Pleuromeians, Isoetaceans, Selaginellales & Lycopodiaceans) survived the incident, despite being quite vulnerable to such extinctions
 

Attachments

  • )^àpiçou_kyjthgrf.PNG
    )^àpiçou_kyjthgrf.PNG
    28.2 KB · Views: 11
  • Like
  • Informative
  • DRINK!
Reactions: Mesh Gear Fox, AMHOLIO, MrB and 3 others
Upvote 0 Downvote
Ttaps are gay
Luckily we are quickly returning to the good ole days and making earth a giant uninhabitable shithole
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back