As subduction zones burned through the carbon-rich crust at the edges of the Pangaea supercontinent, any rock weathering that might have buried carbon dioxide now sputtered in the vast interior. Rainforests dried out and carbon dioxide levels ticked steadily upward. The planet stumbled toward apocalypse. On a world fully stocked with reptiles, dazzling reefs, ammonoids, sharks, massive amphibians, trilobites, giant …
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