How a two-million-year deluge rewrote the rules of life
In short: Explore how a catastrophic shift in Earth's climate transformed a desert wasteland into a lush kingdom, allowing an underdog species to rise from the shadows.
During the era of Pangea, roughly 234 million years ago, the supercontinent's interior was a hyper-arid 'dead zone.' The environment was so dry that moisture could not reach inland areas, leaving a landscape dominated by massive, armored reptilian giants. In this brutal wasteland, early dinosaurs were insignificant scavengers.
The narrative explores a geological turning point where deep crustal shifts opened a 'wound' in the Earth, triggering a continuous rainfall lasting two million years. This unprecedented deluge destroyed the reign of the desert giants and paved the way for dinosaurs to become the dominant species on the planet.
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