Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

Let’s find out if you were dead or thriving at the end of the Permian Period, 252 million years ago.

Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios

References:
Peter Brannen - The Ends of the World
Global warming → marine anoxia (esp at high latitudes):
Coal/carbon contributed - location-specific:

[eons]

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[geekyprojects]

As a student I was thriving on whatever was available to eat and I could tolerate breathing heavily polluted air (smoking was socially acceptable). Hibernation worked till more or less 11 AM.

[agar]

Between 50 and 60 ºC on land and up to 40ºC in the oceans.

[mattroxursoul]

Would I have survived the great dying? Hell no, the internet went out for 5 hours a few nights ago and I just laid down and cried.

[szah]

I wasn't there, but my ancestors survived the great dying just fine!

[xpehkto]

0:33 It might've been between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius on land and up to 40 degrees in the oceans.

[ErikRussellArts]

I'm stealing "On a scale from dead to thriving, ya'd probably be dead"

[NateC_]

Me, a Celsius user: I wonder how hot that is cuz I have absolutely no reference point

[Bagelgeuse]

Considering it's literally called the "great DYING", and it killed 70% of land species (which I am), I'm fairly certain I won't even leave a skeleton behind for paleontologists to find.

[knate]

Jokes on you, I love sleeping, burrowing and eating whatever trash I can find.

[iamcatlegend]

To be fair, I don't think I'd survive the Permian even before everybody started dying.

[RobCabreraCh]

I'm barely surviving this afternoon and you want me to survive a mass extinction event???!!

[skykid]

Less immediately dead than after the chixulub meteor but considering this lasted thousands of years, I'm not sure it's much better

[kthulhukohlmann]

So you're saying there's a chance...

[armskaap]

Could you please include the centigrade or metric alternatives to Fahrenheit and imperial measures? I'm aware this is an American channel but I'm sure a lot of other non-Americans also love to learn about paleontology! Just a number on screen or something would be really nice!

[tfsheahan]

When the going gets tough, the tough get going! So, no, I probably wouldn't have survived.

[sharkeeshaDaGreat]

this channel has the most soothing voices, and the best explanation! i love ❤️

[astroanthropoid]

I would have stayed in my nice comfy space station! With its time machine and frozen yogurt dispenser.

[mike]

It doesn't take a mass extinction for me to be closer to dead than thriving.

[samueli.johnston]

What are all those temperatures in Celsius? (The entire world other than the US is asking)