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kali<p>why am i posting this.</p><p>because these smartasses in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oilandgas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oilandgas</span></a> industry. voted for trump. he said he would <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drillbabydrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drillbabydrill</span></a>. now they have serious market volatility, and there is word on the street about a glut. not to mention <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> on steel. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permian</span></a> wells need hell a lot of that. plus a tariff on heavy crude which will make diesel more expensive.</p><p>this is the worlds most important industry by far &amp; they are that fucking stupid. and that's relevant.</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-drillers-cut-oil-gas-rigs-10th-week-row-baker-hughes-says-2025-07-03/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/energy/us</span><span class="invisible">-drillers-cut-oil-gas-rigs-10th-week-row-baker-hughes-says-2025-07-03/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
llewelly<p>another fabulous episode of Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs by the incomparable Natee ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@Himmapaan" class="u-url mention">@<span>Himmapaan</span></a></span> ), Gemma, and Marc:</p><p><a href="https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/07/09/podcast42/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chasmosaurs.com/2025/07/09/pod</span><span class="invisible">cast42/</span></a></p><p>DinoDadReviews@sauropods.win also in this episode!</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a><br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>paleoArt</span></a><br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a><br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>permian</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dimetrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dimetrodon</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>The blood-curdling <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> monsters that ruled the Earth before <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a>.</p><p>The Permian, an obscure era of geological history where the planet was ruled by giant, bone-chilling beasts that ran with a characteristic waddle and sometimes snacked on sharks. During this living nightmare, there were occasionally more carnivores around than there were prey for them to eat on land.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250624-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025062</span><span class="invisible">4-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/globalmuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globalmuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a></p>
Will Beckett 🍁<p>A fairly solid BBC write up about pre-dinosaur <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permian</span></a> predators.<br /><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>prehistoric</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>animals</span></a> <br /><a href="https://bbc.com/future/article/20250624-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025062</span><span class="invisible">4-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs</span></a></p>
AvA<p>El Pérmico balear: la vida antes de los dinosaurios <a href="https://youtu.be/OyO35Zq2uxs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/OyO35Zq2uxs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Paleontolog%C3%ADa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontología</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/P%C3%A9rmico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pérmico</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>...and the last post from 2022. Here&#39;s a study of Orthacanthus, for a project I cannot talk about yet. Orthacanthus, is a freshwater elasmobranch (shark) from the Carboniferous and Permian Periods.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Orthacanthus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthacanthus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shark</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Sharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sharks</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carboniferous</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fossil</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Terrestrial life oasis from end-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> mass <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> period discovered<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-terrestrial-life-oasis-permian-mass.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-terrestr</span><span class="invisible">ial-life-oasis-permian-mass.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5614" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.ads5614</span></a></p><p>"a region in Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium for terrestrial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> during the end-Permian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a>... The discovery provides the first conclusive fossil evidence of a terrestrial plant community that remained largely undisturbed throughout the extinction event, allowing for continuous evolution and rapid ecological recovery afterward."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Ancient <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amphibians</span></a> bounced back from Earth's greatest mass <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> by exploiting <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/freshwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freshwater</span></a> prey <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ancient-amphibians-earth-greatest-mass.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-ancient-</span><span class="invisible">amphibians-earth-greatest-mass.html</span></a></p><p>The ecology and geography of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/temnospondyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>temnospondyl</span></a> recovery after the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a>–<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Triassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Triassic</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a> <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsos.241200</span></a></p><p>"the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/temnospondyls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>temnospondyls</span></a> success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey... the freshwater habitats they preferred provided them with a relatively stable variety of food resources"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-struggled-millions-years-world-worst.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle</span><span class="invisible">d-millions-years-world-worst.html</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/conifers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conifers</span></a> were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> catastrophe. But the recovery of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> resembling modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/clubmosses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clubmosses</span></a>. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"</p>
Blogorgonopsid<p>The weathered rocks of the South African Karoo Basin have revealed to the world a perfectly preserved skeleton of a therapsid from the family Gorgonopsidae. Slowly, its discoverer approaches..</p><p>Wonderful art from Maty (@zoo_moravia on Instagram and zoomoravia.blogspot.com) was selected as a Picture of the Week! Glorious, isn't it?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorgonopsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorgonopsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/therapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>therapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/01/obrazek-tydne-31-1-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/obrazek-tydne-31-1-2025.html</span></a></p>
Blogorgonopsid<p>Zvětralé horniny jihoafrické pánve Karoo vydaly na světlo světa dokonale zachovalou kostru savcotvárného plaza, therapsida, z čeledi Gorgonopsidae. Pomalu k ní přistupuje její objevitel...</p><p>Nádherný obraz Matyho z instagramového účtu @zoo_moravia a blogu zoomoravia.blogspot.com byl zařazen mezi Obrázky týdne! Skvělý, že ano?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorgonopsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorgonopsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/therapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>therapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/01/obrazek-tydne-31-1-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/obrazek-tydne-31-1-2025.html</span></a></p>
CelloMom On Cars<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Methane</span></a> pollution at US’s biggest oilfield plunges after Biden crackdown</p><p>Aerial surveys show that emissions at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> Basin of potent greenhouse gas declined 26% in 2023</p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b097d8da-846e-4e23-a3a6-89d1a6ccc2fd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/b097d8da-846e-4</span><span class="invisible">e23-a3a6-89d1a6ccc2fd</span></a></p>
Blogorgonopsid<p>A newly described early-middle Permian gorgonopsian from Mallorca, the oldest member of this clade known so far, shows that therapsids likely evolved in paleoequatorial Pangaea!</p><p>Nově popsaný mallorcský gorgonopsián ze začátku středního permu, nejstarší dosud známý zástupce tohoto kladu, ukazuje, že therapsidi se pravděpodobně vyvinuli na paleorovníkové Pangaeai!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/therapsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>therapsid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorgonopsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pangaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pangaea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permian</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2024/12/therapsidi-mozna-vzesli-z-rovnikove.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/12/therapsidi-mozna-vzesli-z-rovnikove.html</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions <a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sci.news/paleontology/mallorca</span><span class="invisible">-gorgonopsian-13515.html</span></a></p><p>Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-54425-5</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Therapsids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Therapsids</span></a> were a dominant component of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a> during the early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mesozoic</span></a>... <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontologists</span></a> have discovered a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewSpecies</span></a> of early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/gorgonopsian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonopsian</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/therapsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>therapsid</span></a> that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Pangea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pangea</span></a>"</p>
Garrett Latimer<p>Spike the <a href="https://meow.social/tags/inflatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inflatable</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/gorgonops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorgonops</span></a> is finally here. He’ll be at Get Out The Float in February, and I’m hoping to make a smaller version available as a public run sometime next year.</p><p>2D by me<br>3D by Skeletonizing and AsG_Alligator</p><p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/Inostrancevia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inostrancevia</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/synapsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synapsid</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permian</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/protomammal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protomammal</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/pooltoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pooltoy</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/furryart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>furryart</span></a></p>
Mikko Tuomi<p>At the end of the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a>, around 252 million years ago, volcanoes in the Siberian Traps spewed lava over an area almost the size of Australia, igniting massive wildfires, burning vast oil and coal deposits, and pouring <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/greenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenhouse</span></a> gases into the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a>.</p><p>After such apocalypses, Earth’s <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> typically reverts more or less to normal within 80 000–200 000 years, thanks to the interaction of the global carbon and silica cycles via <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/silicate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silicate</span></a> weathering.</p><p><a href="https://eos.org/articles/clays-may-have-slowed-earths-recovery-after-the-great-dying" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eos.org/articles/clays-may-hav</span><span class="invisible">e-slowed-earths-recovery-after-the-great-dying</span></a></p>
Daniel Dvorkin<p>There’s been no doubt for some time that we’re in the middle of a sixth <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/mass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mass</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a>. Here are some numbers.</p><p>If we’re very lucky, we’ll stop at the level of the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Devonian</span></a> extinction, the least severe of the Big Five. More likely we’re headed for something on the scale of the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ordovician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ordovician</span></a> or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Triassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Triassic</span></a>. The <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cretaceous</span></a> is in sight, and the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> is not out of reach. From an evolutionary time perspective it will <em>look</em> like the Cretaceous, practically as instantaneous as the Big Rock.</p><p>I confess, I really like the idea of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/corvid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corvid</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontologists</span></a> digging up the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a>. Feathers gleaming under badlands dust, exciting cawing as dextrous claws scrape rock away from a flat-faced skull … But I’m very much not okay with what we’re doing right now to make that happen.</p><p>Pop-sci coverage: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/</span></a></p><p>Journal article, open access: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12974" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10</span><span class="invisible">.1111/brv.12974</span></a></p>
Dr. Or M. Bialik<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WeekendReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeekendReading</span></a>: Lei et al., on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/chert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chert</span></a> formation in limestone-marl alternations during the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> Chert Event (a thing I was not aware of and am now fascinated by).<br><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224003717" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0031018224003717</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>300 million-year-old tail print shows that scales evolved earlier than expected <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/scales-helped-reptiles-conquer-the-land-when-did-they-first-evolve/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">6/scales-helped-reptiles-conquer-the-land-when-did-they-first-evolve/</span></a></p><p>A diadectid skin impression and its implications for the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0041" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0041</span></a></p><p>"the epidermal scales in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/diadectids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diadectids</span></a> and other terrestrial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tetrapods</span></a> prevented the evaporation of water from their bodies, which may have helped them survive the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/desert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>desert</span></a> climate that prevailed on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Pangea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pangea</span></a> during the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a>"</p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>Fracking needs water (clean) that gets returned to the surface as "produced" water (not clean). A LOT of it.</p><p>"The land has subsided by as much as 11 inches since 2015 in a prime portion of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a> Basin, as drillers extract huge amounts of oil and water, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of satellite data. In other areas where drillers dispose of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> in underground wells, the land has lifted by as much as 5 inches over the same period."</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/in-america-s-biggest-oil-field-the-ground-is-swelling-and-buckling/ar-AA1nNDDu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/money/markets/in</span><span class="invisible">-america-s-biggest-oil-field-the-ground-is-swelling-and-buckling/ar-AA1nNDDu</span></a></p>