Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events
Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 22:43
in Paleontology & Archaeology
If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits.
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