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An adaptation of a period piece book has been branded a "masterpiece" by Netflix viewers, with some admitting they were left ...

Variation in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is usually taken to be the main cause of climate change on geological timescales. The apparent exceptions to the link threaten to undermine that view.

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400 million years before the K-Pg boundary, the world was already testing out its appetite for apocalypse with a little-known event called the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ago, the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year ...

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