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Fern-Fueled Wildfires Raged across Europe for Millennia during End-Triassic Mass Extinction


A 201-million-year-old climate catastrophe turned Europe into a landscape of fern savannahs that repeatedly caught fire, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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