Extinction - Blog Posts

Technically speaking humans and avocados have a symbiotic relationship

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

Also it sounds like sci-fi but one day (possibly very long one day) with genetic technology even extinct creatures may eventually be brought back.

Makes me think how vulnerable we really are,,, considering how we still haven't observed any aliens yet and how they might as well not exist, life is really precious, but it can be destroyed at any moment,,

The site of impact from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is called Chicxulub Crater

The center of the crater is located near the Mexican town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. The crater is larger than 180 km in diameter; this feature makes it one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth. The meteorite that formed the crater was at least 10 km in diameter.

The age of the rocks shows that this impact structure dates back to the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago.

The impact associated with the crater is implicated in the extinction of dinosaurs, as suggested by the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K-Pg boundary), the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, although some critics argue that the impact was not the only reason, others debate whether there was a single impact or whether the Chicxulub impact was one of several that could have hit the Earth at about the same time.

Recent data suggest that the impact may have been created by a piece of a much larger asteroid, which fragmented into a distant space collision more than 160 million years ago.

The car that hit the Earth had an estimated diameter of 10 km, and emitted an estimated equivalent of 96 teratons of TNT. By contrast, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated by man, the Tsar's Bomb, had a yield of only 50 megatons of TNT so the impact of Chicxulub is 2 million times higher and stronger.

http://www.dinosauria.ca/

This happened a while ago but it still breaks my heart

For those who don't know, this persian leopard, pirouz , was one of the few ones of its kind left. He was , and his kind is this close to extinction. He was our last hope.

And he passed away

He actually meant a lot to Iranians and was a symbol of hope, either for the ones who dared to protest or for others

Just amazed how they couldn't keep one leopard alive.

The last thing that brought me joy in this life passed away.

You have built your dwellings upon the bones of those you damned, your cities upon the mass graves of countless beings, and your countries in the burnt and scarred remains of what was once their homes.

Every last breath, every lineage cut short, every forest, fen and fallow torn asunder feeds it; with every wisp of smoke, every incremental creep of a warming world, and with every drop falling from retreating glaciers it grows. A beast of fire and ice, choking ash and swelling seas, the roaring core of the earth surging forwards and the heartless cold of the endless reaches above plummeting down in its infernal halo.

This is not the gentle, loving death that carries souls softly into that good night, nor is it the wrath and rage of a mere god of war. It is the great equaliser, the callous harvestman scything wheat, wildflower and weed alike so that a new world may grow in its place. And when the slate is cleared, when the Earth’s lungs cough out the last of the soot and the ballard of life rises into a new chorus, you will be forgotten, the king of kings whose shattered ruins are razed by roots and rot, the mocking hand crushed beneath a universe it thought it could command, and its ruins buried not beneath that barren sands of a world that couldn’t live without it but the joyous songs of a planet unshackled from your iron grasp.

What if the reason the Extinction doesn't have avatars is not just because it's too young but that its whole purpose is to make a future without humans so it doesn't want the help of humans

Extinction: Ew humans

End: kid, you need them to help you

Extinction: fuck you 🖕

All about Dinosaurs

Everyone of us knows more or less about dinosaurs. But the question is, do we actually know what dinosaurs were or how they lived or became extinct? Well, let us know briefly about the dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs were thw animals of the Mesozoic era which were chiefly terrestial, gigantic and fossil reptiles, a group of extinct and are considered as the largest land animals. Mesozoic era was divided into three periods and they were the Triassic period, the Jurassic period and the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs lived in those three periods. The dinosaurs lived about 245 to 66 million years ago and they lived on earth for about 160 million years.

It is obviously a wonder to most of the people that hopw did the dinosaurs appear in the earth. Mostly it is thought that land mass was gathered on the continent Pangea. So, scientists think that’s how the dinosaurs were originated and they first appeared in South America.

There were both types of dinosaurs- herbivorous and carnivorous. Their forms were mosly like bid lizards, some were like gigantic sharks and others were like big flying birds. Foods of dinosaurs weremostly plants, grass and dead animals. The colours of dinosaurs were dark like the elephants and rhinoceroses. Some also think there were also dinosaurs of bright colours like purple, orange-red and even with blue spots.

Now, let us discuss how the dinosaurs were divided into those three periods of Mesozoic ers. Of course different types od Dinosaurs had appeared in each period.

The Triassic Dinosaurs: The Triassic dinosaurs were reptile types. Some were active, some were covered with feathers. Some known dinosaurs were- the Caelophsis, the Plateosaurus(late Triassic), the Staurikosaurus(lateTriassic) etc.

The Jurassic Dinosaurs: They were mostly like mammals. There were also some sea monsters. Famous dinosaurs were- the Camarasaurus, the Brachiosaurus (late Jurassic), the Allasaurus ( late Jurassic) etc.

The Cretaceous Dinosaurs: In this period, the climate of the earth had changed. There were hard dwelling dinosaurs. They were- the Velociraptor, the Tarbosaurus, the Triceraptors etc.

ArgentinoSaurus was the largest dinosaur and its length was 22-33m. While, Campsognathus was the smallest dinosaur and its length was only 1m.

Dinosaurs used to lay eggs. Dinosaurs were hatched from eggs. The average lifespan of most dinosaurs were 100-152 years.

Today animals like turtles, birds and crocodiles have similarities with the dinosaurs according to some some of their characteristics. Some think that the dinosaurs could roat as their size were enormous. But dinosaurs actually sounded like the chirping of birds.

When we hear about the extinction of animals, the first animal that comes to our minds is the Dinosaur. Dinosaurs became extinct fully in a mysterious way. Some scientists think that the asteroid impact on the earth killed the dinosaurs. Some think, the dinosaurs became extinct all on a sudden. Some say as the climate was changing, the dinosaurs failed to adapt with the new environment and thus they became extinct.