Scientists have finally found solid evidence to explain the biggest extinction event in Earth’s history.
Huge amounts of carbon dioxide that spewed from colossal volcanic eruptions in Siberia turned the world’s oceans dangerously acidic 252 million years ago, helping to drive a global environmental calamity that killed most land and sea creatures.
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