The Permian water world contained one massive continent, Pangea, and a single vast ocean stretching around the globe from coast to coast.
Tag: History
Carboniferous Cooling
The biosphere and our environment are in a constant dance of self-regulation. Carboniferous cooling at the end of the period is a classic example of a self-regulating cycle.
Carboniferous Period
The Carboniferous Period derives its name from our love of fossil fuels. Between 359 and 299 million years ago, life laid the foundations for Anthropocene climate change as massive coal deposits formed.
Devonian Life Sinks into Mass Extinction
Between about 383 and 359 million years ago, 70 to 80 percent of the species on the planet disappeared in a Late Devonian Mass Extinction.
Devonian World
The explosion in plant life in the Devonian world may have been more significant for Earth’s history than the changes wrought in the animal kingdom.
Silurian Magic
During a period of Silurian magic, life benefited from environmental conditions and thrived in the warm shallow seas and on land.
Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction
The Ordovician Period was a great time for life on Earth until the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction catastrophe.
The Big Ordovician Freeze
Life crept out of the oceans and onto dry land about 470 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. These first Ordovician plants had a major impact on the world.
The Rise and Fall of Ordovician Life
The success of life in the Ordovician was driven by the availability of vast flooded continents, which formed the shallow marine habitats for a dizzying array of new and successful species
The Ingredients for Life
An Early Cambrian Success Story Published in The EarthSphere Blog. Feature Image: Jellyfish — 540 Million Years of Success: by WM House (ArcheanArt) Prologue The Forgotten Origins series has taken us into the Cambrian Period, where an explosion of life occurred in a frenzy of hyper evolution during the Early Cambrian. But why then? Why the Early Cambrian? The fossil Read More…