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That Time Almost Everything Died

S1 · E5 · 19 Aug 2026

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The Permian Period ended with the biggest mass extinction of all time; more than 80% of species vanished. It altered the course of evolution in ways that we can still feel, 252 million years later. And it was caused by a rapidly changing climate.