{"id":8705,"date":"2015-10-10T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2015-09-26T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:40:33","slug":"siberian-traps-likely-triggered-end-permian-mass-extinction-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8705","title":{"rendered":"Siberian Traps Likely Triggered End-Permian Mass Extinction &#8211; MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 252 millions years ago life on Earth collapsed in a unprecedented fashion as more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species disappeared. The cause of this severe extinction has been a mystery, until now. (Learn more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1McanIw\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1McanIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1McanIw<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNs9U4qVOII\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have now determined the Siberian Traps erupted at the right time and for the right duration to have been a likely trigger for the end-Permian extinction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick\/MIT<br \/>\nAdditional footage and stills: Henrik Svensen, Scott Simper and Seth Burgess<br \/>\nMusic sampled from &#8220;Out&#8221; by Ryan Cross<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Ryan_Cross\/Dah_Gunk\/Out\" href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Ryan_Cross\/Dah_Gunk\/Out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Rya&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 252 millions years ago life on Earth collapsed in a unprecedented fashion as more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species disappeared. The cause of this severe extinction has been a mystery, until now. (Learn more:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1McanIw) MIT researchers have now determined the Siberian Traps erupted at the right time and for the right duration to have been a likely trigger for the end-Permian extinction.\u00a0 Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick\/MIT Additional footage and stills: Henrik Svensen, Scott Simper and Seth Burgess Music sampled from &#8220;Out&#8221; by Ryan Cross http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Rya&#8230; http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,3],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","category-tech","tag-mit-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}