Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Mass extinctions: are we there yet?
Palaeontologists recognize five major extinction events from the fossil record, with the most recent, the Cretaceous mass extinction, ending some 65 million years ago. Given the many species known to have disappeared in the past few thousand years, some biologists suggest that a sixth such event is now under w...
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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_864962197
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_864962197
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/nature09678
