MORE than two-thirds of life on earth died off some 252 million years ago, in the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history.
Researchers have long suspected that volcanic eruptions triggered “the Great Dying”, as the end of the Permian geologic period is sometimes called, but exactly how so many creatures died has been something of a mystery.
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