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252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today

If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.

Ozone-depleting chemicals may have caused the largest mass extinction in history

A massive volcano in Siberia killed 90% of all life, and halogen chemicals spewed by it played a major role.

Ancient rocks reveal causes of Earth's greatest mass extinction event

The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.

The Permian extinction - caused by "lemon juice" acidic rain ?

The Permian extinction was the biggest extinction ever, killing 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates Possible causes include: impact, loss of oxygen and volcanic eruptions Researchers tested the validity of the last hypothesis, finding it likely The biggest extinction – ever MIT Researchers believe that rain as acidic as undiluted lemon […]

Ancient volcanic eruptions caused mass extinction 200 million years ago

Some 200 million years ago  half of all life on Earth went extinct, thus providing a window of opportunity for the dinosaurs to evolve in now unoccupied niches and dominate the planet for the next 135 million years. Curiously enough, after the dinosaurs were at their own term wiped out by a calamity – presumably at the […]

During the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history the world's oceans reached 40°C - lethally hot

Between 247 to 252 million years ago, Earth life was going through quite possibly its most dire time. During this period some 90% of world’s species were wiped out, but what puzzled scientists for so long is the fact that it took five million years for life to recover after this apocalypse. A new study […]

Earth took 10 million years to recover from biggest extinction

Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth passed through its toughest time so far, as 96% of all marine species and over three quarters of land vertebrates went extinct. According to British researchers, the mass extinction was so severe that it took life 10 million years to recover. With less than 10 percent of […]