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Farmers pray for rain in
of drought. Most of us have wanted the
to open to help our garden in an excessively dry
. However, none of
can imagine a period of rain lasting two million years. U.K. geologist Alastair Ruffell has found that 200-300 million years ago, before the
of Earth separated into
, it did rain non-stop for up to two million years. Dr Ruffell said this helped the
of flora and fauna all over the
. He believes the rain may have been sparked by a
rise in humidity following a series of massive volcanic
.