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The Blob Could Have Devastated Global Ecologies the Last Time Climate Changed Anywhere Near as Fast as it is Changing Today

By Impacts

This one is stranger than strange. scientists have long been puzzled by what looked like fungal bodies that seem to cover many fossils of different kinds from what is called the end-Permian. This “end-Permian” is how the end of the Permian Epoch is described. It’s also called Permian Triassic Extinction 251 million years ago when…

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Permian Extinction Included Massive Forest Die-off Caused by Abrupt Climate Change Fungus:

By Forest Mortality

“The death of the forests – primarily comprised of conifers, which are distant relatives of today’s pines and firs – was part of the largest extinction of life on Earth, which occurred when today’s continents were part of one supercontinent, Pangaea. The so-called Permian extinction likely was triggered by immense volcanic eruptions in what is…

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