Matter: The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In some ways, the planet's worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.

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