Cyclical Extinctions
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Before an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs, climate change was already killing them slowly
A study finds that the number of species was in steep decline from 10 million years before the asteroid strike.
Fabien Condamine, The Conversation
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What ancient beasts that once lived with early humans in India tell about evolution and extinction
The subcontinent experienced a low magnitude megafaunal extinction approximately 30,000 years after the arrival of Homo sapiens in the region, finds a study.
Sahana Ghosh
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Is dark matter the cause of chaos on Earth every 30 million years?
Every 30 million years, Earth has to deal with more comet crashes from space and more intense geological activity from within. Dark matter may be the culprit in these episodes.
Michael Rampino, The Conversation
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