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Earth could experience a 7th mass extinction, not the 6th – ‘A real decrease in the abundance of organisms’

New research indicates that a mass extinction occurred 550 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period. Message from creatures 550 million years old to the present. Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests that environmental changes caused the first such event in recorded …

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Earth may experience 7th mass extinction, not 6th

Earth may experience 7th mass extinction, not 6th

Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests that environmental changes caused the first such event in recorded history, which happened millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought. Diorama depicting sea creatures from the Ediacaran period. (Smithsonian Institution) Most dinosaurs died out 66 …

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