It Took 60,000 Years to Kill Nearly Everything on Earth

Monday, February 10, 2014 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

It took only 60,000 years to kill more than 90 percent of all life on Earth, according to the most precise study yet of the Permian mass extinction, the greatest die-off in the past 500 million years.

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