This episode explores new research which has found that an ancient extinction event on Earth may have been caused (in part) by mercury poisoning from volcanic eruptions.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Quicksilver’ by Julie Suk here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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