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Scientists know it as “the Great Dying.”
It happened in a geologic blink of an eye 252 million years ago. A vast volcanic vent in Siberia belched noxious gases and enough lava to build a new continent the size of Europe. The air grew warmer and drier, wildfires ravaged the landscape, and the oceans turned toxic. Over the course of a few tens of thousands of years 90 percent of all ocean species and three quarters of life on land was lost.
“It was devastating,” said paleontologist
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An artist’s reconstruction of the Late Permian, showing a lucky Lystrosaurus and various Permian vegetation. The Lystrosaurus was one of the few species to survive the “Great Dying” extinction event, which wiped out nearly all life on Earth. (Marlene Hill Donnelly)
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