SCIENCE BRIEFING
Times Staff And Wire Reports
A mass extinction about 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.
The Guadalupian mass extinction, which devastated marine life around the world, was preceded by enormous eruptions in southwest China, researchers reported in Friday’s Science journal. Lava in the sea could have produced a massive cloud formation that cooled the planet and produced acid rain.
