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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified. Credit: CC0 Public Domain
October 23, 2020
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Life on Earth has a long, but also an extremely turbulent history. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct and an already highly developed biodiversity shrank to a minimum again, changing the course of evolution each time. The most extensive mass extinction took place about 252 million years ago...About three quarters of all land life and about 95 percent of life in the ocean disappeared within only a few thousand years.

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