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# The Age of Mutant Plants
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/eons/episode/the-age-of-mutant-plants-emrifb/
- Published: 2026-09-15T20:30:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T08:30:18.000Z
- Description: What about the Great Dying caused a global age of mutant plants?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Eons, Season 9, Episode 10, #ZZZ_Episode_71b72532-2af8-45d1-b69a-a312134bc92a, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_097a92b5-f8ed-4727-9486-f3b9368ac0ef, #geo-us, #v1.16

Around 252 million years ago, as the Permian Period transitioned into the Triassic, there wasn't much life on Earth left. Landscapes had been torched an entire ecosystems had collapsed. But the fossil record is full of something else, too -- mutant plants -- found worldwide and spanning thousands of years. But what was it about the Great Dying that caused a global age of mutant plants?