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World's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter

17 November 2021

The end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago might have begun when eruptions triggered a volcanic winter

Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land

11 October 2021

About 3.2 billion years ago, microbes began to colonise land for the first time, and geological evidence suggests they fed on energy-rich chemicals in volcanic lava

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World's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter

Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land

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