Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

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Geological time-scale -- Antediluvian Sauria -- Murchison names the permian -- Death of catastrophism -- Concept that dared not speak its name -- Impact! -- Diversity, extinction and mass extinction - ...