Comments on: Book review – Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World

By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:44 +0000

[…] periods such the Huronian Snowball Earth episodes 2.5–2.2 Ga ago, the ice-age worlds of the Carboniferous 359–299 million years (Ma) ago when elevated oxygen levels allowed insects to grow nightmarishly […]

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By: Book review – The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 May 2022 10:32:32 +0000

[…] statement refers to the fact that most of the world’s coal reserves were laid down during the Carboniferous under circumstances that will never reoccur: after the evolution of the first trees but before the […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:26 +0000

[…] drew down atmospheric CO2, leading to an ice age marking the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, while Carboniferous forests in death ultimately became the coal reserves fuelling our Industrial Revolution. This part of the […]

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By: Book review – Otherlands: A World in the Making | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Otherlands: A World in the Making | The Inquisitive Biologist — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:39:43 +0000

[…] includes well-known sites such as end-Cretaceous Hell Creek (66 million years ago, or mya) and the Carboniferous world of Mazon Creek (309 mya) or Lagerstätten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) such as the […]

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By: Book review – A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:44:29 +0000

[…] nose, sans brain – sans nearly everything” (p. 38). He discusses the fantastic flora of the Carboniferous, and the unique conditions that gave rise to 90% of today’s coal reserves. And he sticks up […]

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By: Book review – Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:00:50 +0000

[…] back to the Carboniferous (roughly 360-300 million years ago) when higher oxygen levels supported a land of giants. It was here that the first fish made landfall and tetrapods evolved. To get from this distant […]

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By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:49:02 +0000

[…] that dug burrows, which is one strategy to deal with temperature fluctuations. However, it was the late-Permian mass extinction that really kick-started endothermy. As the planet heated up, therapsids adopted a strategy of […]

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By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:14:01 +0000

[…] it was the late-Permian mass extinction that really kick-started endothermy (see also my review of Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World). As the planet heated up, therapsids adopted a strategy of “breed fast, die young”, […]

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By: Book review – Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:38:58 +0000

[…] of most of our planet’s fossil fuel reserves during the Carboniferous (see my review of Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World), or radiocarbon dating (see Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science) – this is the […]

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By: Book review – Origins: How the Earth Made Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Origins: How the Earth Made Us | The Inquisitive Biologist — Sun, 26 May 2019 15:19:40 +0000

[…] were formed and why they are found where they are found. From reviewing Energy: A Human History and Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World I was already familiar with the fact that 90% of the coal we have used since the Industrial […]

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