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Killer cosmic rays from exploding stars may have caused a mass extinction event – News Landed
A new study has revealed that the late-Devonian Extinction may have been caused by a non-Earth, astronomical event.
Though the term “extinction event” often refers to the extinction of the dinosaurs’ Cretaceous Period or the possibility of human extinction (because of how horribly we treat the planet), Mother Earth has actually seen multiple mass extinction events. There have been a total of five mass extinction events, with the Permian-Triassic Extinction (250 million years ago) being the worst.
A new study has revealed that the late-Devonian Extinction that occurred approximately 359 million years ago may …
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