The evolutionary pruning shears of the Permian, a series of extinctions, including the Judgment Day at the period’s close known as the Great Dying that killed off more than 95 percent of life on Earth, cut the blossoming tree of life down to only a branch or two of mammal forerunners, including that of … Continue reading “A Forgotten World” -Apocalypse of the ‘Great Dying’ Gave Rise to the Dinosaurs