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    Ancient, lost, mountains in the Karoo reveals the secrets of massive extinction event

    BySteven Young Thursday, October 19, 2017Wednesday, September 25, 2024

    Fossil records near the lost Gondwanides mountains show that the Permian-Triassic extinction started 1 million years prior to what was previously believed. Millions of years ago, a mountain range that would have dwarfed the Andes mountains in South America,…

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