Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predictwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1194arrow-down115
arrow-up1179arrow-down1external-linkMammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predictwww.nytimes.comBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareWHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoDoesn’t matter if there’s no food or extremely scarce resources.
minus-squareANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoLosing the plankton in the ocean on top of losing vegetation would also cause oxygen problems, iirc.
minus-squareIndiBrony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoOne of the planet’s mass extinction events was The Great Oxidation Event. Future lizard scientists will study our time period and coin it The Great Carbonisation Event!
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe extinction in the article has nothing to do with carbon
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhy would that be though? Last time there was a supercontinent it also supported large animals
Doesn’t matter if there’s no food or extremely scarce resources.
Losing the plankton in the ocean on top of losing vegetation would also cause oxygen problems, iirc.
One of the planet’s mass extinction events was The Great Oxidation Event. Future lizard scientists will study our time period and coin it The Great Carbonisation Event!
The extinction in the article has nothing to do with carbon
Why would that be though? Last time there was a supercontinent it also supported large animals