Fossils of an unusual saber-toothed predator that lived during the worst mass extinction event on Earth are revealing how unstable things were for animals during “the Great Dying”
Fossils of an unusual saber-toothed predator that lived during the worst mass extinction event on Earth are revealing how unstable things were for animals during “the Great Dying.” A series of supervolcanoes in Eurasia erupted 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian era, expelling greenhouse gases and causing catastrophic climate change.
Unfortunately for Inostrancevia, things rapidly became so bad that it too died out.” The Permian mass extinction: a complex ecological shift Studying the Karoo Basin is helping scientists piece together what happened during the Permian mass extinction. “The Karoo Basin preserves what is by far the best record of life on land before and after the mass extinction,” Kammerer said.
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