{"id":177585,"date":"2023-12-07T04:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-reshapes-understanding-of-mass-extinction-in-late-devonian-era"},"modified":"2023-12-07T04:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T10:27:01","slug":"study-reshapes-understanding-of-mass-extinction-in-late-devonian-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-reshapes-understanding-of-mass-extinction-in-late-devonian-era","title":{"rendered":"Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reshapes-understanding-of-mass-extinction-in-late-devonian-era3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth\u2019s Devonian era\u2014taking place more than 370 million years ago\u2014saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the continents of Gondwana and Laurussia.<\/p>\n<p>However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mass+extinction+event\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mass extinction event<\/a> near the end of this era has long been the subject of debate. Some scientists argue the Late Devonian mass extinction was caused by large-scale volcanic eruptions, causing global cooling. Others argue a mass deoxygenation event caused by the expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/land+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">land plants<\/a> was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>A recently published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-023-01087-8\">study<\/a> in the journal <i>Communications Earth &amp; Environment<\/i> led by researchers at IUPUI now posits that both factors played a role\u2014and draws attention to the environmental tipping points the planet faces today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth\u2019s Devonian era\u2014taking place more than 370 million years ago\u2014saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the continents of Gondwana and Laurussia. However, a mass extinction event near the end of this era has long been the subject of debate. Some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}