Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/
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Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/
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I looked up the dying thing: “Also known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event or end-Permian extinction, it took roughly 100,000 years, if not more; by the time it was over, all but a handful of species had dwindled away to nothing.” www.sciencealert.com/what-is-the-...
Title text: "Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3120#Transcript