Mass Extinction by Mantle Superplume

When people hear about mass extinctions of the past, they immediately think dinosaurs and asteroids, but what they don't know is that the event that occurred about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), was not the first. In fact, before they even appeared, life came... [ read more >> ]

This modern-day landscape from Iceland may look similar to the barren lands of Pangaea after the extinction

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This modern-day landscape from Iceland may look similar to the barren lands of Pangaea after the extinction