{"id":14090,"date":"2014-03-24T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14090"},"modified":"2014-11-01T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:41:07","slug":"how-all-life-on-earth-was-almost-wiped-out-five-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14090","title":{"rendered":"How all life on Earth was almost wiped out &#8211; five times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thos weekend, \u00a0I watched episode 2 of the fascinating new American television series <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey\">&#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode concentrated on evolution and referred to the five great extinctions when substantial proportions of life on the planet were made extinct.<\/p>\n<p>The best known one &#8211; the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction\u00a0&#8211; wiped out the dinosaurs, but the most severe &#8211; yhe Permian mass extinction (nicknamed The Great Dying) &#8211;\u00a0eliminated around 96% of all life forms. We are descended from the 4% that survived.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about these great extinctions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/extinction_events\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thos weekend, \u00a0I watched episode 2 of the fascinating new American television series &#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221;. This episode concentrated on evolution and referred to the five great extinctions when substantial proportions of life on the planet were made extinct. The best known one &#8211; the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction\u00a0&#8211; wiped out the dinosaurs, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15976,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}