The Slo-Mo Trainwreck Continues
The World is Having an Extinction Event But We Live too Fast to See It. Permian Extinction - A quarter billion years ago. 75% of all Animal, 95% of all sea creatures and plants wiped out. Took perhaps a two to three million years to happen. The "big finish," the eruption of the Siberian Flats. [source] Even this humongous catastrophe took maybe a million years to finish the kill off. Dinosaur Extinction - 66 million years ago. All the dinos plus about half of plant life and sea creatures wiped out . Took perhaps half a million years to happen. The monster rock that hit Earth (Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico), and some others, plus the Deccan Flats eruptions in India were the villains. [source] [source] We ...