Permian-Triassic Extinction?

[Pappa]

They might as well stick a plastic test tube to the cover of New Scientist and stick it on the magazine racks with the Dora the Explorer magazines.

I happen to love the New Scientist, even if they do print complete shite occasionally.

It's not as good as it used to be, same as everything else.

I was always meaning to get that book, "Is it just me, or is everything shit?".

Sorry for the derail but I have both volumes of that book and it's well worth getting. Some very funny bits in it.

Have you seen Shit Towns?

[ScholasticSpastic]

except of course dinosaurs did not start making a mark before the start of Trias... so flowers were actually in a plot with the dinosaurs to get rid of the older saurians

Bugger. I wanted it to be flowers. But clearly I was wrong. It's a fun idea, flowers wiping out dinosaurs. The timing doesn't support it, though. :sighsm:

[Svartalf]

well, it's still dimetrodon killed by a flower... mmmgh, did millefleur or twoflower go hunting?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

well, it's still dimetrodon killed by a flower... mmmgh, did millefleur or twoflower go hunting?

If it was Twoflower we'd have pix.

[Berthold]

If you mean angiosperms, the flowers don't really fit with any faunal turnover. Angiosperms became the dominant flora well inside the Cretaceous.

Gymnosperms existed throughout the Permian with quite a diversity, and the first ones were considerably earlier.