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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael Benton

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time Michael Benton ebook
ISBN: 9780500285732
Page: 336
Format: pdf
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

However the Permian-Triassic extinction was the most dramatic. The likelyhood is that corals just couldn't hack it. Douglas Erwin, author of the new book " Extinction! (Phys.org) -- It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed. During the greatest biodiversity crisis in the history of life some 250 million years ago, over 90 percent of all the species in the oceans died off in just a few hundred thousand years. As it was the Ultimate Predator so far until WE appeared?No shortage just lately on how our species is only the latest - but maybe, we fancy, Biggest And Bestust!!! The fossil record shows us that at this point, the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth's history occurred. Not only did To put it in perspective, at the K-T extinction, about 60% of life on Earth died out. Benton, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, Thames and Hudson, 2003. I recently read “When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time” By Michael J. For example, I would never have guessed the European Eel was on the verge of dying out in the wild Worse, due to its habit of dashing out to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, is nearly impossible to breed in captivity. So it's fair to say that this However, corals later go on to great heights as the major reef builders in the Triassic. A life and legacy to envy, in my opinion. Benton which is about the end-Permian extinction but it had a lot of info about the K-T one too. At the P-T extinction, it was about 95%. Mention "Mass Extinction" and most people will immediately think of the extinction that killed the dinosaurs.To be fair, this was pretty big, as far as extinctions go. The breaking apart of the ice shelves also reduces the environment that supports microbial life, and changes the look of Canada's coastline. And mourning Iain, although I only ever exchanged a dozen or so words with him at a signing or few, and although it was only a matter of time once we knew the diagnosis.