Just finished reading a couple of books on the Permian/Triassic extinction: Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History, by Peter D. Ward, and When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, by Michael J. Benton. Both (obviously) totally out of my field of study, but amazing stuff. I'd known
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