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Original Title: Mega El Niños kicked off the world’s worst mass extinction, researchers report in Science | Researchers knew that a spike in global temperatures was a likely culprit of the Great Dying, but found that catastrophic weather plagued Earth with droughts, wildfires and floods for years on end