by Elio — At the end of the Per­mian pe­riod, about 250 mil­lion years ago and not long be­fore the di­nosaurs ap­peared, life on Earth ex­pe­ri­enced its great­est cat­a­stro­phe: a mass ex­tinc­tion that did away with the vast ma­jor­ity of life forms on land and sea. The ques­tion arises, who ate the car­casses of the de­ceased?