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Personally, as someone who grew up with "Walking With Beasts" & "Ice Age", I'd kill for a Cenozoic-based documentary on par with Prehistoric Planet, especially one covering the world throughout the Pleistocene in areas like Sundaland/South Asia, Australia, Madagascar & South America.
4.9K votes, 68 comments. 911K subscribers in the Naturewasmetal community. A collection of dinosaurs and other awesome creatures that are now extinct.
We'll assume things like past solar cycles and the break-up of Pangea are still givens and the transition from the fairly arid Permian to the gradually wetter environment of the mid-late Triassic still occurs. If you'd like to keep it simple, we can just talk about what this AU's Triassic and Jurassic look like.
Researchers link a large extinction event in the Late Triassic to an asteroid impact that occurred 215 million years ago in what is now Quebec.
Life on Our Planet Megathread. Discussion. Similar to when Appletv released the trailer to Prehistoric Planet, this sub will be creating this meagthread for general discussions of Netflix's Life on Our Planet. All other posts related to the topic will be removed. Here is a link to the trailer.
Watched a documentary the other day where it showed the grand total of technological achievement for a full million years of humanity - it was a sharp rock. That's it. For a million years we did not progress beyond a single rock.
The Great Dying, also known as the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Event (PTME) of 251 million years ago, was the result of CO2, mercury, and halocarbons being injected into the atmosphere, increasing CO2 levels from ~400 ppm to ~ 2400 ppm. The result was that 81% of all species went extinct.
