{"id":31291,"date":"2025-03-17T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31291"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:16:58","slug":"end-permian-mass-extinction-epme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/end-permian-mass-extinction-epme\/","title":{"rendered":"End-Permian Mass Extinction (EPME)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>End-Permian Mass Extinction Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The End-Permian Mass Extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new fossils hint.<\/p>\n<h2>About End-Permian Mass Extinction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The End-Permian Mass Extinction (EPME), also known as the <strong>Permian-Triassic Extinction<\/strong> Event or &#8220;<strong>The Great Dying<\/strong>,&#8221; was the <strong>most severe extinction event<\/strong> in Earth&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<li>It occurred approximately <strong>252 million years ago<\/strong> and marked the<strong> transition from<\/strong> the <strong>Permian to the Triassic Period<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The Triassic Period is the first period of the Mesozoic Era, lasting from 252 million to 201 million years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>End-Permian Mass Extinction Cause<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At that time, the <strong>supercontinent Pangea<\/strong> was in the<strong> process of breaking up<\/strong>, but all land on Earth was still largely clustered together, with the newly formed continents separated by shallow seas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An<strong> enormous eruption from<\/strong> a <strong>volcanic system <\/strong>called the<strong> Siberian Traps<\/strong> seems to have <strong>pushed carbon dioxide levels to extremes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The eruption covered around 2 million square kilometers with lava and wasone of the largest volcanic events in Earth\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The eruptions may have caused large amounts of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere and caused a <strong>large-scale global warming <\/strong>effect of more than 10\u00b0C on land and around 8\u00b0C on the ocean surface in a short period of time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The eruptions may have <strong>also caused acid aerosols and dust clouds<\/strong> to be released into the atmosphere, which <strong>blocked out the sun<\/strong> and <strong>prevented photosynthesis <\/strong>from occurring, effectively causing many food chains to collapse.<\/li>\n<li>This caused global warming and <strong>ocean acidification,<\/strong> leading to a massive collapse of the ocean ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>End-Permian Mass Extinction Impacts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EPME <\/strong>was characterized by the <strong>elimination of about 90 percent of the species <\/strong>on Earth, which included more than <strong>95 percent of the marine species<\/strong> and <strong>70 percent of the terrestrial species.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In addition, <strong>more than half of all taxonomic families<\/strong> present at the time <strong>disappeared<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It ranks <strong>first in severity among the five major extinction episodes<\/strong> that span geologic time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>End-Permian Mass Extinction FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which extinction killed the dinosaurs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The extinction that killed the dinosaurs is called the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction, which occurred around 66 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What was the worst mass extinction in history?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. End-Permian Mass Extinction (EPME)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the oldest mass extinction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The oldest mass extinction is the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) extinction, which occurred around 443 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/fossils\/refuge-from-the-worst-mass-extinction-in-earths-history-discovered-fossilized-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End-Permian Mass Extinction (EPME) was the most severe extinction event in Earth&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}