That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons At 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/ Thanks to Franz Anthony, Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: Julio Lacerda: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Franz Anthony: https://252mya.com/gallery/franz-anthony Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018214003253 http://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/10.1086/413056 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03996-1 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5895/1485.short https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/40/1/79/130736 https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/20221/31295008017864.pdf?sequence=1 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41684613?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018298001175 https://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/S0031018210001434 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018205005286 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/254/5029/263.full.pdf?casa_token=7g3gnYUD0gIAAAAA:PcbqrP5BLHUzxbhQgHKmNPI27ma_gB6Ph3nnFzWkXZZd4nPju5fE6ieeTv-4GAGCBxGnzMtu-xFK0g https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018209004805 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/90239/1/Carnian%20humidity%20final%20version.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Simms4/publication/249546497_Climatic_and_biotic_change_in_the_Late_Triassic/links/56543f2b08ae1ef929767f3f.pdf http://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/366.short http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/benton/reprints/1982triassic.pdf