One of Earth's biggest supereruptions that could have buried New Zealand finally makes sense

Around 350,000 years ago, the centre of New Zealand's North Island looked nothing like the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape familiar today. Vast beech and podocarp forests covered the region during a cold glacial period, providing habitat for abundant native birdlife, right up until one of the most explosive volcanic events ever recorded on Earth tore through the landscape without warning.

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