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http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8535.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]10 million years to recover from mass extinction[/font]
Press release issued 27 May 2012
[font size=4 color=red]It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed.[/font]
[font size=3]Life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, with only 10 per cent of plants and animals surviving. It is currently much debated how life recovered from this cataclysm, whether quickly or slowly.
Recent evidence for a rapid bounce-back is evaluated in a new review article by Dr Zhong-Qiang Chen, from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, and Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol. They find that recovery from the crisis lasted some 10 million years, as explained today [27 May] in Nature Geoscience.
There were apparently two reasons for the delay, the sheer intensity of the crisis, and continuing grim conditions on Earth after the first wave of extinction.
The end-Permian crisis, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, was triggered by a number of physical environmental shocks - global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia. These were enough to kill off 90 per cent of living things on land and in the sea.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1475Press release issued 27 May 2012
[font size=4 color=red]It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed.[/font]
[font size=3]Life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, with only 10 per cent of plants and animals surviving. It is currently much debated how life recovered from this cataclysm, whether quickly or slowly.
Recent evidence for a rapid bounce-back is evaluated in a new review article by Dr Zhong-Qiang Chen, from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, and Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol. They find that recovery from the crisis lasted some 10 million years, as explained today [27 May] in Nature Geoscience.
There were apparently two reasons for the delay, the sheer intensity of the crisis, and continuing grim conditions on Earth after the first wave of extinction.
The end-Permian crisis, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, was triggered by a number of physical environmental shocks - global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia. These were enough to kill off 90 per cent of living things on land and in the sea.
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10 million years to recover from mass extinction (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
May 2012
OP
So I guess that means it's time to fix a nice sammich and kick back for a spell?
Systematic Chaos
May 2012
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OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)1. You mean the Republicans were in charge back then too?
Acid rain, global warming...
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Unfortunately their reptilian brains have so far failed to evolve further
That's just what the science says.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)3. LOL!
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)4. So I guess that means it's time to fix a nice sammich and kick back for a spell?