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Never in the history of the planet was there a catastrophe that was so widespread, so devastating and so all-inclusive.
地球歷史上還從未出現過如此大規模，如此嚴重，如此徹底的災難。
The Permian mass extinction was far more terrible than the later extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
二疊紀生物大滅絕遠比后來出現的恐龍滅絕事件可怕得多。
The dinosaurs extinction that happened 65 million years ago,
恐龍滅絕發生在6500萬年前，
killed off maybe 60% of most of the species on the planet.
大概消滅了地球上65%的物種。
There's still plenty of life around.
仍然有不少生物還活著。
But I get the sense that were one to go back to the Permian extinction right afterward
我覺得要是你再回頭看看二疊紀生物大滅絕，
you would see virtually nothing of life.
你基本上看不到什么生物。
At the end of the Permian era, 95% of all life died.
二疊紀晚期95%的生物遭到了毀滅。
It was the biggest reverse in the forward march of evolution ever recorded.
這是進化史上記載的最大的一次倒退。
Yet, until recently, almost nothing was known about this extraordinary event.
然而直到今天，我們仍然對這次重大事件所知甚少。
Nobody could explain why it had happened or even whether it would happen again.
誰都無法解釋它為什么會發生，或是預言它是否還會再次發生。
