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New research reveals how El Niño caused the greatest ever mass extinction

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Massive ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago.

Scientists have long linked this mass extinction to vast volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia .

The resulting carbon dioxide emissions rapidly accelerated climate warming, resulting in widespread stagnation and the collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

The Permo-Triassic mass extinction, although devastating, would ultimately see the rise of dinosaurs becoming the dominant species thereafter.

The Cretaceous mass extinction would ultimately lead to the rise in mammals, and humans, Dr. Farnsworth concluded.

Mass extinctions resetting the Earth 's natural system resetting life and evolution along different paths.

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