I’m probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.
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The Azolla Event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event. I mean it is cool and the major climate shift it helped create certainly caused some extinctions. But plants can change the world, never forget!
Very cool!
It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.
Ooh, since this is a safe space for dorks, I would like to be pedantic myself. Thank you for the opportunity. The oxygen catastrophe was caused by cyanobacteria-like organisms, which are photosynthetic, but are not plants. But it’s true, all bio-mass matters!
Yeah I knew they weren’t plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
They have plant-ey vibesThey were all like “let’s get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!” And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire
That’s interesting. What makes cyanobacteria distinct from plants?
The first thing that comes to mind is that bacteria are prokaryotes, while plants are eukaryotes. They have internal membranes, called thylakoids, in which they do photosynthesis, but chloroplasts in plants are fully-developed organelles with their own DNA. If I recall correctly, the current thinking is that chloroplasts developed from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
The Holocene.
I’m judging you, not because you chose the Holocene, but for how easy it was to get people without interesting opinions to identify themselves 😏
I was just teasing. But you received some really interesting replies. Good post!
The Holocene.
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The Holocene
The one with the internet, whatever that’s called.
Yep, that one’s the Holocene.
Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.
So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)
Devonian. I was extincting before it was cool.
When the hyper intelligent dinosaurs lost control of their nuclear power plants and their society collapsed.
Just a pet theory of mine.
They made it. They’re in the delta quadrant.
wheres the star wars but with dinosaurs series?
Star Ptrek.
The oxygenation of the ocean. Never knew that was a mass extinction! So much interesting stuff came from that!
This is the one where the ocean turned purple wasnt it?
Sounds right. I saw a documentary about it a fee months ago.
That’s my fav too.
“The Oxygen Catastrophy” is just such a cool name.- Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
- Causes the ocean to rust
- Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
- then causes the earth to turn to a snowball
Fuckin metal
I wouldn’t call any extinction event a favorite, because it is a loss. An interesting one that is less known than the Dodo is that the wake island rail bird was hunted to extinction by starving Japanese soldiers in WWII. The Americans blockaded the island, trapping the Japanese there, and they ate all the birds in just a couple years time.
I think it’s an interesting extinction because it’s an unintended casualty of war.
I was asking for extinction events, aka mass extinctions.
But this is still very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with me
Nice try, FBI!
The next one of course
The ongoing one, cause I get to take part in it!
I’m judging you, as I said I would
Hell yeah, this one is ours!
The current one playing out. Because I 'm tired.
That’s the Holocene, and I’m judging you.
The Oxygen catastrophe. Without it I wouldn’t exist.
Not sure if it counts but the devonian extinction is probably my favorite. Wiped out a bunch of marine vertebrates (I hate fish, they had it coming)
The theories behind why it happened changed, and it’s technically two small extinction events. Although it is pretty big iirc >95% of the worlds vertebrates died off and did not come back
