Archive for January 14th, 2012

Could Siberian Volcanism Have Caused the Earth’s Largest Extinction Event?

Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth’s history. Although the cause of this event is a mystery, it has been speculated that the eruption of a large swath of volcanic rock […]