{"id":761,"date":"2026-07-22T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ancient-ferns-turned-triassic-europe-into-a-wildfire-inferno\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:10:01","slug":"ancient-ferns-turned-triassic-europe-into-a-wildfire-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ancient-ferns-turned-triassic-europe-into-a-wildfire-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <title>Ancient Fern Savannahs and the End-Triassic Firestorms<\/title><\/p>\n<article>\n<h1>Ancient Fern Savannahs and the End-Triassic Firestorms<\/h1>\n<p>New fossil discoveries reveal that during the end-Triassic mass extinction, vast expanses of Europe became wildfire hotbeds, largely due to ancient fern savannahs. These ferns, remarkably resilient, would regrow after each fire, creating a continuous cycle of fresh fuel that sustained the fiery devastation. This regeneration and subsequent burning likely transformed the landscape into a relentless inferno.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/07\/260722032105.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.sciencedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Fern Savannahs and the End-Triassic Firestorms Ancient Fern Savannahs and the End-Triassic Firestorms New fossil discoveries reveal that during the end-Triassic mass extinction, vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}