Comic courtesy of Nathan Pyle, author of Strange Planet
Roy Plotnick has a new post over on Medium. The post is about extinction... mass extinction. We have a roll in the current and a past extinction. Time for action!
Mass extinctions and their causes are topics of intense interest. Nearly forty years after the 1980 paper on the end-Cretaceous impact, significant new research on it and on the resulting extinction continue to appear. Other mass extinctions, such as the ones at the end of the Ordovician and Permian, likewise are fertile areas for investigation. But what has become of equal interest to paleontologists is the aftermath of these cataclysmic episodes: how does life recover after extinctions and how does the rebuilding biosphere differ from what went before? Four very different recent papers show the paths that life took after the Cretaceous-Paleocene (K-Pg) extinction event. Together, they are a warning to us.
