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dinosaurs extinction
Title: dinosaurs extinction
Category: Science & Technology
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dinosaurs extinction
The extinction of the Dinosaurs
The first question that must be posed when trying to crack the mystery of the mass extinction is to ask, throughout history were there any other occurences of this magnitude? The answer is a resounding yes. Altogether over time there has been about eight mass extinctions to large land dwelling vertebrates. The most recent was about ten thousand years ago, killing most of the giant mammals like mammoths, mastodons, super-large camels, saber-toothed tigers, and others (Bakker 428). The second question, is …showed first 85 words of 1584 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1584 total…in North Dakota, "A detailed breakdown shows that the apparently fixed number of species owes much to rapid recovery after mass extinctions… Species diversity was drastically reduced at the end of each geological era, not only at the species level, but among genera and families too (Hsü 94)." There are also a fair number of scientists who believe in both kinds of theories. They have called the combination of events that led up to this extinction, "The worst weekend in the history of the world (Hsü 95)."
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