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Can all animals get drunk? If not, what enables this in those that can?

Chris Jack,

St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

Earth was a hothouse 201 million years ago, leading to the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event. How did it recover? Why was there no runaway greenhouse effect?

Ralf Ludwig,

Melbourne Beach, Florida, US

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