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Originally Posted by chunksmediocrites
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Originally Posted by thedoc
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Gee, I wonder why the transitions that marked the ends of those periods were mass extinction events. The estimated percentage of species extinctions at the end of the Jurassic was 70%-75%. The end of the Cretaceous was 75%. Of all species. You know, when the climate changed.
Why anyone would suggest such an overblown descriptor as disastrous to describe three quarters of the existing species dying out in a relatively short geological period is indeed a fucking mystery. I mean a full 15% shy of literal decimation is p. good times.
The end of an era. |
How could a mass extinction that included you, be a disaster?