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Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period
Cutter had not been paying attention this morning when he’d gotten in the shower and realised too late that only eggnog seemed to be coming from the pipes and now he was smelling a lot like eggnog, so that had been a rather unexpected start to the day.
Even though Cutter had also been rather distracted since his trip back home and his subsequent conversation with Connor and what he had learned about what was to happen to Stephen, he had poured himself into his work to try and distract himself and had ended up finishing his notes on the remaining extinction events that he had to cover.
“So I know the last class I gave an assignment on one of the extinction events and the causes of it that we’d previously covered, I realise Thanksgiving was last week,” he had actually forgotten that it before he had issued the assignment, “so if you have prepared an assignment already, we’ll spend a bit of time doing the reports before we continue on with the lecture,”
Once any reports had been given, Cutter passed out the notes on the last two extinction events that they had left to cover in the class, “so the remaining extinction events that we have to cover are the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event“
“The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event occurred roughly 201 million years ago,” Cutter began the lecture, “it resulted in 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species being wiped out and it is believed that this extinction event is what allowed dinosaurs to become the prominent species of the planet, the cause of this extinction event is believed to have been the result of climate change and rising sea levels, particularly as this was caused by a sudden release of large amounts of carbon dioxide,”
“The final extinction event is the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event is the third worst extinction event on record and took place roughly 66 million years ago, this event saw the destruction of 80 percent of all species of animals and if you recall earlier in the semester when I covered the Cretaceous period that this extinction event is was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, it is now a commonly accepted theory that an asteroid or comet was responsible for the chain of events that led to this extinction event,”
“Next week we will also be going on a field trip instead of a lecture, I’ll be taking you to visit a …” he hesitated as he tried to think of how to describe the ARC without going into too much detail before the trip, “research facility where I worked before I became a teacher here,” he settled, “that focuses on dinosaur research,” well that was technically the truth.
Even though Cutter had also been rather distracted since his trip back home and his subsequent conversation with Connor and what he had learned about what was to happen to Stephen, he had poured himself into his work to try and distract himself and had ended up finishing his notes on the remaining extinction events that he had to cover.
“So I know the last class I gave an assignment on one of the extinction events and the causes of it that we’d previously covered, I realise Thanksgiving was last week,” he had actually forgotten that it before he had issued the assignment, “so if you have prepared an assignment already, we’ll spend a bit of time doing the reports before we continue on with the lecture,”
Once any reports had been given, Cutter passed out the notes on the last two extinction events that they had left to cover in the class, “so the remaining extinction events that we have to cover are the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event“
“The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event occurred roughly 201 million years ago,” Cutter began the lecture, “it resulted in 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species being wiped out and it is believed that this extinction event is what allowed dinosaurs to become the prominent species of the planet, the cause of this extinction event is believed to have been the result of climate change and rising sea levels, particularly as this was caused by a sudden release of large amounts of carbon dioxide,”
“The final extinction event is the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event is the third worst extinction event on record and took place roughly 66 million years ago, this event saw the destruction of 80 percent of all species of animals and if you recall earlier in the semester when I covered the Cretaceous period that this extinction event is was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, it is now a commonly accepted theory that an asteroid or comet was responsible for the chain of events that led to this extinction event,”
“Next week we will also be going on a field trip instead of a lecture, I’ll be taking you to visit a …” he hesitated as he tried to think of how to describe the ARC without going into too much detail before the trip, “research facility where I worked before I became a teacher here,” he settled, “that focuses on dinosaur research,” well that was technically the truth.