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Mass Extinction Can Be a Slow Event
February 7, 2012 | National Science Foundation

The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth’s marine life–and it killed in stages–according to a newly published report.


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November 14, 2011 | BBC.co.uk
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Extinction Rate of Amphibians
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Earth During the Permian Extinction
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Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary
January 6, 2012 | PLoSone
The PLoSone online journal has an article about Acamptonectes densus, an ichthyosaur that survived the...


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