Over the past 540 million years, Earth has suffered only five mass extinctions. In ultra-simplistic terms, that’s one every 108 million years, though it doesn’t really pan out like that. … [Read full article]
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Biggest Extinction Event Caused by Volcanoes
The Permian-Triassic extinction event – also known as the Great Dying – is recorded as the most significant extinction event in Earth’s history, seeing a whopping 96% of marine species … [Read full article]