The Great Dying was like a really bad flu for the planet, it wiped out most of life on Earth. Imagine if all your favorite animals and plants suddenly disappeared, and everything was just covered in mud and dead stuff. Scientists think this happened because something went wrong with the Earth’s climate, maybe from big volcanic eruptions that made the air hot and full of bad chemicals.
Examples
- A huge volcanic eruption made the Earth so hot and dirty it almost killed everything on land and in the sea.
- Imagine all your pets, favorite animals, and plants suddenly disappearing, that’s what happened during the Great Dying.
- The oceans became full of dead stuff, and the air was thick with smoke from burning volcanoes.
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