Identified drivers of the largest mass extinction in Earth history – AlKhaleej Today

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Life on earth has a long, but also extremely turbulent history. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct and an already highly developed biodiversity shrank to a minimum again, whereby the course of evolution changed each time. The most extensive mass extinction occurred around 252 million years ago. It was the end of the Permian Era and the beginning of the Triassic Era. About three quarters of all land life and about 95 percent of l…

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