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LA Times Today: Wildfires once led to mass extinction, scientists say. Can it happen again?

LA Times Today: Wildfires once led to mass extinction, scientists say. Can it happen again?

Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

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A new research study is highlighting the parallels between an ancient period of global warming and modern climate change.

Scientists are looking to the events of the Great Dying to determine how extreme wildfires led to mass extinction more than 250-million years ago.

L.A. Times science and medicine reporter Corinne Purtill discusses the alarming new findings.

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