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Giant eruptions belched toxic metal during the ‘Great Dying’
![Erta Ale Lava lake, active volcano in Ethiopia.](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-020-01576-2/d41586-020-01576-2_18010434.jpg)
Volcanic eruptions some 250 million years ago expelled enough mercury to poison life on land and at sea. Credit: Getty
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Nature 582, 11 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01576-2