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Mega El Niño events may have caused planet’s greatest mass extinction 252 million years ago
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating, than the one caused by a giant asteroid that spelled doom for the dinosaurs. The most credible explanation put forward to date has been that carbon dioxide released by volcanic activity in a region known as the Siberian Traps caused a sudden warming of the planet. The emissions in the vast area in what’s now Russia that was about the size of Australiar esulted in higher temperatures, aci

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