Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict
Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict
A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction.
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Sure, there aren’t any heat adapted mammals
Doesn't matter if there's no food or extremely scarce resources.
Losing the plankton in the ocean on top of losing vegetation would also cause oxygen problems, iirc.
One of the planet's mass extinction events was The Great Oxidation Event. Future lizard scientists will study our time period and coin it The Great Carbonisation Event!
The extinction in the article has nothing to do with carbon
Why would that be though? Last time there was a supercontinent it also supported large animals
With the oceans boiled away?
But life probably will not make it that long. As the sun hurls more energy at the planet, Earth’s atmosphere will heat up, causing more water to evaporate from the oceans and continents. Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas, and so it will trap even more heat. It may get hot enough in two billion years to boil away the oceans.