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SCOUT· 66%11m·2025-11-05·ScienceWhy Some Species Survive Mass Extinctions
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Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rose globally and oxygen in the oceans dropped. And while the vast majority of species…
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