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Video, The Permian Extinction .. Dr Roger Smith of the South African Museum shows where the dark Permian soil has been overlaid by reddish post apocalyptic mudstone, that delineates an event that wiped out around 95% of all species 252 million yrs ago.

Shots returned by the NASA Rovers indicate Mars' seas actually boiled away caused by an absolute drop in atmospheric pressure, postulate the same solar flares caused both catastrophes. Link.

Earthly creatures that survived the Permian disaster include the coelacanth, certain types of marine shellfish, sharks, bryozoans which are a group of small animals resembling corals, crinoids relatives of starfishes and ammonoids including the chambered nautilus. Wiki.

Despite Mars' very shallow seas boiled away completely and its atmosphere vaporized, on Earth the actual period of lessened atmospheric pressure that caused the lakes and rivers and the top layers of sea water to boil off, was fairly short.

Water pressure in the deep seas and in the deepest freshwater lakes and rivers prevented their boiling, while the atmosphere had regained enough pressure to halt the process before the wave of boiling gained the depths.

Those creatures that survived on Mars like the progenitors of the Martian Fox from Opportunity Sol 985 and the Mars Snake, were sheltered in caves when disaster struck. Edit.