New study finds massive eruptions likely triggered mass extinction

ENN
Sep 16, 2015, 10:14 am25 pts
Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth collapsed in spectacular and unprecedented fashion, as more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species disappeared in a geological instant. The so-called end-Permian mass extinction — or more commonly, the “Great Dying” — remains the…

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