Imagine that it has been raining on today’s world for 2 million years. It would be scary, wouldn’t it? Who knows, us humans too about living things and plant populations What consequences would it have? Millions of years ago, something like this actually happened.

It may sound impossible, but scientists have discovered it Which shows that it has been raining for 2 million years, There is a lot of evidence, such as erosions in rocks or fossil remains.

our planet, So long that it is difficult for us to imagine It rained constantly and that of course had major consequences. Let’s take a look at what these effects are and what is happening on Earth.

Rains lasting two million years have seriously affected our planet’s plant and animal populations.

During the Late Triassic (234 to 232 million years ago), enormous climate change took place on our planet. “Carnic Rainfall” This event, which is called, caused many environmental changes and volcanic activities.

According to paleontological data, 33% of all marine species are and 90% of all living species are extinct. In addition, some plant and animal species have diversified significantly.

At the time of the event, which took place almost 232 million years ago, the Earth was dry and the continents were connected. It became “wetter” with the onset of rainfall that would last for 2 million years the number and diversity of dinosaurs There was a significant increase. With the rains, the plant population increased and the forests began to expand and giant plants spread out.

Without the rain, the age of dinosaurs might not have lasted so long.

About 20 million years before the Carnian rains, there were dinosaurs, but their numbers were not large. New vegetation that arises with increasing rainfall, herbivorous reptiles It became a food source for many animals, including the dinosaurs, and ushered in the dinosaur age, which lasted another 165 million years.

Turtles, frogs, crocodiles, lizards and other mammals are on the rise. evolution of plants, on the nutrition and survival of herbivores made a significant impact. Changes have occurred in the chemistry and cycles of the oceans as new coral reefs and plankton groups have developed.

The pine trees we know today are among the plants left to us by the Carnivore rainy period.

The rainy period, which lasted millions of years, left a lasting impact by helping the conifers to spread and diversify, and we see the trees we see everywhere today. pine trees arose at that time.

Considered one of the five most important mass extinction events Carnian rainfall In summary, while it caused serious losses in our planet’s animal population, it also caused significant diversification of some animals and plants. I wonder what the world would be like today if such rainfall had never occurred?

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