252 million years ago, earth experienced worst mass extinction. At least 90 percent of all life was wiped out. The primary suspect as to what tri this mass extinction were the sort of volcanic fissures that opened up in siberia. And it produced like a continent sized flood of lava that took about two million years to erupt. So if this is true, so if this young, very excitable sun is what killed venus, the earth would have been fine through this rat.
Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have been a lot like Earth, complete with an ocean of water. So, how did Venus go to hell? And could Earth be next?
This is the final episode of our four-part series, Lost Worlds, and it originally ran on December 1, 2021.
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