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Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the ...
The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why
A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...