Fern-Fueled Wildfires Raged across Europe for Millennia during End-Triassic Mass Extinction

Jul 23, 2026 - 10:45
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Fern-Fueled Wildfires Raged across Europe for Millennia during End-Triassic Mass Extinction
An artist’s impression of the end-Triassic fern spike interval. Image credit: Mark Garlick.

A 201-million-year-old climate catastrophe turned Europe into a landscape of fern savannahs that repeatedly caught fire, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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