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Postmedia News: Volcanic mercury contributed to mass global extinction, Canadian scientists discover

Jan 10, 2012

Canadian scientists probing ancient chemical deposits on the shores of a High Arctic lake have shed new light on the greatest mass extinction in Earth history — the “Great Dying” that wiped out about 90 per cent of the planet’s species 250 million years ago.

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