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100,000 billion metric tons of CO2 choked Earth’s life 252 million years ago
The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of ...
Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.
Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...
The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why
Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ... anywhere near those conditions again, because (Earth back then) was a ...
The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Killer white dwarf capable of ripping entire planets apart spotted by space scientists
A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...
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‘A planet is dying on camera’: James Webb just captured an exoplanet tearing itself apart
MIT researchers estimate one planet, BD+05 4868Ab, is losing mass at a rate of 10 Earth masses per billion years. Since it’s roughly moon-sized, its total destruction is imminent—within a few ...
How 56 Million American Deaths Triggered A Mini Ice Age—The Chilling Link Between The ‘Great Dying’ And Climate Change
When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...