Browsing by Subject "reptiles"

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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 3 - A crisis before the end of the Permian
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Day, Michael
    In this video, Professor Anusaya Chinsamy-Turan interviews Dr Michael Day about the reptilian fauna of the Permian and how South Africa is well-known for fossils from this time period. He talks about the Guadalupian extinction event and how it was mainly affected by the very large terrestrial biota of the time.
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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 3 - Bringing life to its knees
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya
    In this video, Professor Anusaya Chinsamy-Turan explores the development of reptiles and dinosaurs and how they laid the ground for the future development of birds and mammals. She then explores important details about the third mass extinction event. She focuses on the loss of biodiversity and the recovery period that followed while exploring several hypotheses for why this extinction event occurred. This is video 2 in Week 3 of the Extinctions: Past and Present MOOC.