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[RALEIGH] \u2013 The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences presents, \u201cRewiring the Biosphere: Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery after the Permian Mass Extinction<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d Thursday, June 2 at 7 p.m.<\/strong> The worst mass extinction of all time occurred at the end of the Permian Period, around 252 million years ago. During this extinction, around 80% of species went extinct, and the world that followed was nothing like that which came before, with new groups of organisms evolving to take over an empty world.<\/p>\n Join extinction expert Peter Roopnarine, Curator of Geology at the California Academy of Sciences, as he presents the how and why of the end-Permian event, how life was finally able to recover, and how we can further develop our understanding of Earth\u2019s past ecosystems to better forecast our future in the face of global change.<\/p>\n Extinction has been happening for as long as there has been life on Earth. For the most part, only a handful of species are threatened with extinction at any given time, usually due to local environmental factors \u2014 rarely is life all over the world imperiled. However, several times in Earth history this has been the case, and these devastating events are known as \u201cmass extinctions.\u201d In addition to wiping out individual species, mass extinctions fundamentally restructure global ecosystems. Groups of organisms that were successful for millions of years could be gone in an instant, providing chances for new species to fill in the gaps.<\/p>\n This is the first of three presentations complementing the Museum\u2019s current special exhibition, \u201cLife Before Dinosaurs: The Permian Monsters<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d which runs through September 4, 2022. \u201cLife Before Dinosaurs\u201d brings the deep-past back to life with vivid artwork, mounted skeletons, and full-size, animatronic life models of the animals that ruled the world millions of years before the age of dinosaurs, in a time known as the Permian Period. This presentation is recommended for ages 12 and older. Purchase tickets at https:\/\/bit.ly\/rewiringthebiosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other presentations in this series \u2014 which is developed with media support from WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio \u00ad\u2014 include:<\/p>\n July 21:<\/strong> \u201cPathologies of the Paleozoic\u201d with Megan Whitney, Harvard University. Tickets are $10\/person. Add an exhibition ticket and receive $5 off admission to “Life Before Dinosaurs: The Permian Monsters.” The special exhibition will be open from 5 to 7 p.m., with the presentation starting at 7 p.m. Purchase tickets at naturalsciences.org.<\/p>\n For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and ground-breaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on\u00a0<\/em>Instagram<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>Twitter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Facebook<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Join the conversation with #visitNCMNS.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74931,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/74930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/74930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAugust 11:<\/strong> \u201cWe Ate Dinosaurs: Getting to Know our Synapsid Ancestors\u201d with Christian Kammerer, NC Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/p>\n
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