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When Everything On Earth Died

June 2, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Hey, remember that one time when 90% of all life on Earth got wiped out? I don’t either. But it’s a good thing it happened because otherwise none of us would be here to… not remember it. Still, the end-Permian Extinction — [...]

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What Killed The Dinosaurs

December 12, 2010

Narrowing what killed the dinosaurs down to one single cause is impossible. There were at least a dozen extinction events over the course of history, but the one that most scientists point is as the most significant for its extent is the K-T event. When asked to point to one thing that would account for [...]

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K-T Boundary

September 10, 2009

What killed the dinosaurs? That’s a question that has puzzled paleontologists since dinosaurs were first discovered. Maybe the global climate changed, maybe they were killed by disease, volcanoes, or the rise of mammals. But in the last few decades, a new theory has arisen; an asteroid strike millions of years ago drastically changed the Earth’s [...]

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