Ep. 139 The Great Dying
Hey, times are tough! So in a bit of escapism, Petri Dish has decided to dive into one of the largest extinction events of all time -- the Great Dying! Serving as the end of the paleozoic and start of the mesozoic, the Great Dying killed of around 90% of marine animal species and 75% of land species, clearing things out a little bit for the start of the age of the Dinosaurs!
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\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22066-7
\nhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282521400110X
\nhttps://news.mit.edu/2015/siberian-traps-end-permian-extinction-0916
\nhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X11007151
\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22066-7
\nhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0361