mass extinction
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New Analysis Sheds Important Light On An Ancient Mass Extinction Event
The end-Permian mass extinction is considered to be the most devastating biotic event in the history of life on Earth ” it caused dramatic losses in global biodiversity, both in water and on land. About 90% of marine and 70% of terrestrial (land) species went extinct. This event may have been responsible for opening up…
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What Is A ‘Mass Extinction’ And Are We In One Now?
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the evolutionary life cycle.
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New Studies Of Ancient Lava Add Mystery To The Dinosaur Extinction Story
Solidified lava from ancient volcanoes, over a mile thick, covers a portion of west-central India nearly the size of Texas. Contained in the dramatic and craggy striped rock are secrets scientists are only beginning to uncover — secrets that could partially rewrite the story of the dinosaur mass extinction 66 million years ago.
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The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing In Earth’s History
The sixth mass extinction — the one that seven billion humans are doing their darnedest to trigger at this very moment — is shaping up to be like nothing our planet has ever seen. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping new analysis, which compared marine fossil records from Earth’s five previous mass extinction events to…