E13: The Time Everything on the Earth Died
Dave takes The Wonderkamer in a new direction and tackles stories of paleontology. Two hundred fifty-one million years ago, the world was an extremely different place as strange creatures walked out of the swamps onto dry land for the first time. These critters were our ancestors and they ruled the Earth far before the dinosaurs. This is the story of their time on Earth - and their great doom.
Sources and Further Reading
BioInteractive. (n.d.). EarthViewer. https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/earthviewer
Brannen, P. (2017). The ends of the world: Volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions. HarperCollins.
Gutsick Gibbon. (2023, September 29). The deadliest pattern in nature [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/DbAnaeFJtV8
Lindsay Nikole. (2024, May 11). The Permian period (that we know of) ft. Shark Bytes [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/gcqvc4XQE9Y
National Park Service. (2022). Hike the Permian Reef Trail. U.S. Department of the Interior. https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/gumo_permian_reef_trail.htm
Paleo Analysis. (2023). The complete history of the Earth: Everything before the dinosaurs super cut [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbAnaeFJtV8
Permian. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian
Sauropsida. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropsida
Synapsida. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsida