When Life Nearly Died

A large chuck of siberia covering an area larger than western Europe is taken up by ancient cooled lava like a wound in the earths crust. 250 million years ago this formation caused the worst extinction event known to have happened in the earths history.

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[cancellogout]

Huge shoutout to Dmitry Bogdanov for seemingly drawing a picture of every animal to ever live.

[teawrecks]

Lystrosaurus 1: "Gee, what shall we do tonight?"

Lystrosaurus 2: "The same thing we do every night, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD"

[USOfficial]

I remember watching a documentary about this at like 3am when I was probably 5 years old and struggled to remember the name of the creatures. For whatever reason, I couldn't find information about this extinction and the creatures that lived during that time since then. Thank you so much for this video, I've always found this time period interesting!

[Dankleberrrrg]

"When life nearly died"

"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"

[malcaniscsm]

Just wanted to chime in and say that I discovered your channel during 1st lockdown and I've been looking forward to new episodes ever since. Thank you for the calm, honest and straightforward presentation.

[paulvavro]

The permian period episodes are some of my favourites, please keep em coming :)

[LuciFeric]

So fascinating realizing earth has gone through eons of life and huge climactic changes.

[Ballistics_Computer]

It's been wonderful seeing the Permian get so much love lately

[WaterShowsProd]

This was a great overview. Far too little of The Permian and even The Triassic gets mentioned in popular media, despite their tremendous importance.

[Ptaku]

Permian Traps during their eruption must've been the worst hellscape imagineable, a gigantic Mordor stretching beyond horizon

[rl]

I love how straightforward the title is.

“Ya know life?”

“Yeah?”

“Remember that time it almost died?”

“…uh…what?”

“Yeah, good times. Good times.”

[philswift]

OH MY GOD HE UPLOADED, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF LIFE

[ivechang]

I like your style of disseminating information. It's very peaceful in a way that doesn't dissuade enthusiasm for the subject.

[joshuastrittmatter]

Just shows you how truly resilient life on earth really is.

[firelifeblizzard]

Right when I needed him most... He uploaded.

[eardwulf]

For me the best thing about this channel is just how thought provoking it is. Trying to imagine the scene of the description of a sea of dead trees being exploited by opportunistic fungi was both epic and alien.
Moth Light Media is unquestionably one of the better presented prehistory channels.

[Zveebo]

I’m so damn glad to have another video to listen to as I go to sleep – thank you! I just about know all the other ones off by heart at this stage…

[x]

Thank you moth! Your work is incredibly interesting, and well presented

[mirrorblue]

Always a pleasure to view these programs - thanks.

[Niinque]

This was todays exact topic of the class I'm curently taking at university and then this video is uploaded TODAY. It's the wildest coinsidence I've ever experienced