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The Triassic World: A Planet in Recovery Mode

Evolution’s Lottery Winners: How Dinosaurs Got Lucky in the Triassic

Picture the most catastrophic disaster Earth has ever witnessed. It wasn’t a comet from space or even a nuclear war – it happened 252 million years ago when volcanic hellfire from Siberia literally cooked the planet. The Permian–Triassic extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred approximately 251.9 million ...