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The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched as it may seem.

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UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

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