I’m probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.
The oxygenation of the ocean. Never knew that was a mass extinction! So much interesting stuff came from that!
That’s my fav too.
“The Oxygen Catastrophy” is just such a cool name.
- Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
- Causes the ocean to rust
- Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
- then causes the earth to turn to a snowball
Fuckin metal
I wouldn’t call any extinction event a favorite, because it is a loss. An interesting one that is less known than the Dodo is that the wake island rail bird was hunted to extinction by starving Japanese soldiers in WWII. The Americans blockaded the island, trapping the Japanese there, and they ate all the birds in just a couple years time.
I think it’s an interesting extinction because it’s an unintended casualty of war.
Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.
So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)
The Holocene.
I’m judging you, not because you chose the Holocene, but for how easy it was to get people without interesting opinions to identify themselves 😏
whichever the next one is that’ll be my favorite
