How much can 252-million-year-old ecosystems tell us about modern Earth? A lot.

[rangerrebew]

How much can 252-million-year-old ecosystems tell us about modern Earth? A lot.
 
2017-12-11
 

Credit: Brandon Peecook, The Field Museum, using illustrations from Wikimedia Commons
A whopping 252 million years ago, Earth was crawling with bizarre animals, including dinosaur cousins resembling Komodo dragons and bulky early mammal-relatives, a million years before dinosaurs even existed.
New research shows us that the Permian equator was both a literal and figurative hotspot: it was, for the most part, a scorching hot desert, on top of having a concentration of unique animals.

http://latesttodaynews.com/how-much-can-252-million-year-old-ecosystems-tell-us-about-modern-earth-a-lot.html

[Joe Wooten]

Horse$hit! Another not-so-subtle propaganda piece for the global warmistas.

[Smokin Joe]

What it tells me is that things die off. No legislation, no whining about carbon, no new taxc is going to stop natural processes from doing their thing, and that includes going extinct. Paleocene, Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, all had megafaunas vastly different from those in N America today, each of which died off without any human help, and would have done so in spite of any.

If any species is to break that well established pattern (over 98% of all species which have existed are dead), we'd best get our asses off planet and establish a presence that is not dependent on any one world to continue.