Learning from Earth’s largest mass extinction how species survive : Short Wave : NPR

✍️ Berly Mccoy Hannah Chinn Rebecca Ramirez, Berly Mccoy, Hannah Chinn, Rebecca Ramirez 📅 November 05, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: November 05, 2025

Summary: Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rose globally and oxygen in the oceans dropped. And while the vast majority of species went extinct, some survived. Scientists like paleophysiology graduate student Kemi Ashing-Giwa want to know why, because lessons about the survivors of The Great Dying could inform today’s scientists on how to curb extinctions today.Interested in more Earth science? Email us your question at [email protected] to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

How did these species survive mass extinction events?

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Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volca

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