We May Be Living Through a Sixth Mass Extinction—but Scientists Think Some of the First Five Never Happened
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New AI-powered research questions whether a majority of Earth’s mass extinctions were as abrupt as previously believed. If the story of life on Earth was divided into chapter titles, the planet’s five known “mass extinctions” would no doubt feature prominently. Stretching from the end-Ordovician (or …
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