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Check out our NEW POSTER: https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-posterAt the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudiosWant to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshowTwitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshowInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/References:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018214003253http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001853 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161457 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/413056https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03996-1http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5895/1485.shorthttps://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/40/1/79/130736https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/20221/31295008017864.pdf?sequence=1http://www.jstor.org/stable/41684613?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018298001175https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215003053 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00704.x https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018210001434https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018205005286http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/254/5029/263.full.pdf?casa_token=7g3gnYUD0gIAAAAA:PcbqrP5BLHUzxbhQgHKmNPI27ma_gB6Ph3nnFzWkXZZd4nPju5fE6ieeTv-4GAGCBxGnzMtu-xFK0g https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018209004805http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/90239/1/Carnian%20humidity%20final%20version.pdfhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Simms4/publication/249546497_Climatic_and_biotic_change_in_the_Late_Triassic/links/56543f2b08ae1ef929767f3f.pdfhttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/366.short http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/benton/reprints/1982triassic.pdf
