Hypercanes are thought to have played a role in the biggest mass extinction ever, the end-Permian.[1] Back then all the continents had converged into the massiv

Hypercanes are thought to have played a role in the biggest mass extinction ever, the end-Permian.[1] Back then all the continents had converged into the massive Pangea supercontinent, which was surrounded by an equally massive global ocean. Bear in mind that today's most intense tropical cyclones are the ones in the Pacific, the world's largest ocean. Back during the Permian, the global super ocean would've been an even richer feeding ground for cyclones. From the article cited below, "there might have turbocharged 'hypercanes' of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaea—the result of runaway global warming." Also bear in mind that the supercontinent Pangea was assumed to be habitable almost exclusively along its coasts, with an immense desert covering most of its non-coastal land. So if life was mostly concentrated along the coasts and the coasts are constantly getting slammed by hypercanes... yeah, not good. Certainly lots of things contributed to the Permian extinction. Some have referred to it as the "Murder on the Orient Express" extinction: everything caused it. Pangea, an asteroid impact or two, volcanoes, methane releases from the ocean floor, maybe even a gamma ray burst hit the Earth too. The sheer scale of death seems to imply multiple causes. But regardless of what the primary causes were, the hypercanes part of it always fascinated me. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/a-road-trip-to-the-end-of-the-world/532914/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/a-road-t...