‘The Great Dying’ Was Our Worst Extinction Ever, And It Could Happen Again
What exactly caused the greatest extinction on earth? New research may finally hold the answer to this long time mystery. Why Don't Humans Have a Penis Bone? - https://youtu.be/WPCdXAIA3Mc...
========== When you think of mass extinctions you probably
think DINOSAURS!!! Which I mean, that’s fair. Cuz, ya know, dinosaurs. But the greatest extinction event of all time
wasn’t the dinosaurs at all. About 250 million years ago something caused
even more species to die out -- in an event called the end-Permian extinction, also known
by its much cheerier name -- the great dying. The Great Dying took out 96 percent of marine
species and 70 percent of all land-animals. Yeah. Scientists have been searching for the exact
cause of this mysterious mass extinction for decades, but most scenarios they’ve come
up with have been, well, less than satisfying. However, a researcher at UC Berkeley is on
the case, and he might be onto something. The most convincing theory ...