For everything on Earth, There has been a season, A time for continents to meet, a time for them to break apart, a time for warming and a time for cooling, a time for life to thrive and species to Multiply… and a time for them to get obliterated by global catastrophes. Scientists generally recognize five major extinction events when, in very short order (on a geological timescale, anyway), much of life on Earth was utterly stomped into the fossil record.
Here’s a look at the five major extinction events of past, and a glimpse at the sixth one we might be causing right now
