What is a 'mass extinction' and are we in one now?
- Written by Frédérik Saltré, Research Fellow in Ecology, Flinders University
Humans are probably causing what ice ages and asteroids caused before them.Keith Roper/Flickr, CC BY-SAFor more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the...
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