#  Seeking a Break in a 252 Million-Year-Old Mass Killing 

 





February 20, 2014

 

 

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According to science writer Carl Zimmer in the *New York Times*, while Sam Bowring is officially a geologist at MIT, unofficially, he’s a homicide detective trying to solve the ultimate cold case.

[EAPS News](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/science/earth/Mass-Extinction-Permian-Period.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto&_r=1)



 

 

 



 

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