Monday, July 13, 2009

Animal Armageddon - The Fall of the Age of Fish - Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth, The Earth of 377 million years ago was consumed in a volcanic apocalypse caused by a "superplume." Immense volcanic eruptions poisoned the atmosphere, blotted out the sun and caused countless other side effects that resulted in mass death on an unprecedented scale. Life itself was driven to the brink of annihilation. The first large fish to venture onto solid-ground — our ancestors — were hit hard. But remarkably life found a way to survive even though the Earth itself seemed set against it. When the dust settled, the first amphibians crawled out of water and inhabited the land.



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