[SunkenCiv]

Outcrop photos of the Permian-Triassic boundary interval at Penglaitan. Credit: NIGPAS

[Fungi]

“about 252 million years ago.” Exactly? So they really don’t know and it is pure speculation.

[ZULU]

One degree celsius equals 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. So 20 degrees celsius equals 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Add that to any temperature and you have serious ecological problems.

[KarlInOhio]

Outcrop photos of the Permian-Triassic boundary interval at Penglaitan.

You can see the layer of plastic straws which caused the Great Dying.

[Flag_This]

What ever caused the Siberian Traps to be formed occurred around the same period as the Permian extinction.

[PLMerite]

“...a single bed of volcanic ash-rich sandstone...”

Could be a clue in there.

[MuttTheHoople]

Like a.......MASSIVE FLOOD?????

[poinq]

“about 252 million years ago.” Exactly? So they really don’t know and it is pure speculation.

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The first apes to stand up were 6 million years ago, give or take. Homo Sapiens came into existence 250 thousand years ago. They left Africa 70,000 years ago. Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago. The first farming happened about 8000 years ago. Rome was founded in 814 BC. Christ was born around zero AD. America was discovered by Columbus in 1652, 20,000 years after the Asians came to America. The industrial revolution in England began around 1760. While The United States of America was formed in 1776.

SO!... How is this our fault?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

They drowned

[SoFloFreeper]

Huh. Imagine that.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#1. Great photograph of sediment layering. Now it’s what marks each layer that is significant as well as any fossil finds in the layers themselves.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

3,000-30,000 years may be a geological instant but it is a VERY long time biologically. A cataclysmic event like an asteroid strike could cause extinction in several months due to starvation or in days due to asphyxiation or widespread environmental changes.