dunno about cool but this is scary: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction . It claims that the end-Permian extinction was mostly due to hot magna setting underground fossil fuel deposits on fire and upsetting the planet's carbon balance, kind of like now. The underground fires weren't mentioned here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/great-dying-extinction-tipping-point-tropical-forests
OTOH I saw something a few days ago saying the extinctions were not so severe on land: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-five-mass-extinctions-never-happened/
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