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The Mass Extinction Event That Actually Never Happened
Mass extinction events are infamous, entirely destroying many species in one fell swoop. But this particular extinction event ...
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It Turns Out This Mass Extinction Event In A Tropical Cloud Forest Never Happened, Which Means Plants Thought To Be Extinct Are Alive And Well
Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...
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Infographic: A Look at the Big Five Mass Extinctions
But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...
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Deep Time
the mass extinction event, is caused by environmental influences and has a global impact on diversity. All extinctions identified in this timeline are mass extinction events. 1 = More than 25 ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
Nearly all the ... the two events occurred within 100,000 years of each other. Renne doubts that's a coincidence. But the Siberian Traps volcanoes didn't cause the extinction by swamping the ...
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Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline
An extinction event at the end of the Devonian killed off at least 75% of all species on Earth, including many lineages of fish that once swam the oceans. This allowed sharks to dominate, giving rise ...
The Scientist2y
Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
The fossil record—an incomplete archive of biodiversity, as not all organisms fossilize—has produced various estimates of background extinction rates, that is, the usual rate of species turnover in ...
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A Biologist Spotlights 4 ‘Invincible’ Animals That Survived The 5 Mass Extinctions
Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...
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THE EXTINCTION CRISIS – GET THE MESSAGE OUT
And right now, we're in the middle of the sixth mass extinction event in the planet's 4.5 billion-year history ... was born 20 years ago and we're in the exciting stage of pulling it all together. We ...
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THE SOUTHEAST FRESHWATER EXTINCTION CRISIS
the Coosa River is the site of the greatest modern extinction event in North America, where 36 species went extinct following the construction of a series of dams. Overall the Mobile Basin is home to ...
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Extinction threatens nearly a quarter of all freshwater species
New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction ... landscapes are home to 10% of all known species on Earth and key for billions ...