I read an article at ABC Science this morning with this title:
Great Dying happened in hell of a short time
It discussed the mass extinction at the end of the Permian. I was eager to see what type of cataclysmic event might have been responsible...
Scientists working in South China have pinpointed the timing of the Earth's most dramatic extinction, an event that killed 96 per cent of all marine species, and 70 per cent of those on land.
Their findings show that the so-called end-Permian mass extinction, sometimes referred to as the 'Great Dying', peaked just before 252 million years ago, and took place very quickly, over a period of less than 200,000 years...
Very quickly... 200,000 years. Stuff like that is so hard for my human mind to grasp (just like cosmic distances and numbers of galaxies).
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