Waves are responsible for 96% of extinct creatures in the Permian

Scientists have come up with a new explanation for the Permian extinction event that caused 96% of the Earth's creatures to perish. Accordingly, the waves are believed to be the cause of this disaster.

The Permian extinction event took place about 252 million years ago. As explained by the Museum of Natural History, America, at that time, the whole Earth had only one supercontinent called Pangea .

Meanwhile, the temperature on Earth is very hot and dry. Until the end of the Permian, the temperature reached a record high. Many terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals have been threatened with life. However, only when the volcanoes were active did things really get worse.

A large amount of basalt lava covered an area 7 times the area of ​​France and sulfur dioxide gas from volcanic eruptions created acid rain that covered the whole Earth.

The waves are thought to be related to the extinction of 96% of Permian sea creatures.

When carbon dioxide is released into the air, the earth's temperature rises rapidly, causing seawater to warm up, resulting in water shortages of oxygen, leading to many marine species being killed and destroying the food chain of the birth system. Thai

However, scientists have yet to agree on the cause of the Permian extinction event (about 252 million years ago) - also known as the Terrifying Death .

The new theory was made by researchers when they studied Canadian and Japanese stone samples - the former areas of the Phanthalassic Ocean . They found sulfur oxide mixed with other sulfur gases. This suggests that these gases have been mixed together, causing the concentration of toxins in the water to increase and this is the reason marine life cannot survive.

According to the researchers, sulfur gases are mixed just before the Permian extinction event. This is also the reason why it took nearly 10 million years for the ocean to recover.

The gases mixed in the ocean are thought to be due to shoaling , meaning that the waves are deformed when the water depth is less than half the length of the wave. This phenomenon leads to a reduction in wave velocity as well as wavelength. When the sea is disturbed, the sulphide gas at the bottom of the sea is stirred up and mixed with seawater, causing poisoned organisms to survive.

However, the team did not give a reason for the shoaling phenomenon or its relationship to the extinction of terrestrial organisms.