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Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt


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About 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, Earth almost became a lifeless planet. Around 90 percent of all living species disappeared then, in what scientists have called 'The Great Dying.' Algeo and colleagues have spent much of the past decade investigating the chemical evidence buried in rocks formed during this major extinction.

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