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Study shows Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ag
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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J-K: Field workshop on repository of Permian Triassic mass extinction even
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 23 (ANI): A field workshop was organised on Saturday on the repository of the Permian Triassic mass extinction event to adopt the 252 million-year-old Guryul Ravine fossil site in Khanmoh area of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.
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Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 20 (ANI): Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario.
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Study reveals details of another mass-extinction held 260 million years ag
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 15 (ANI): Researchers have recently learned about a new catastrophic mass-extinction event that happened around 260 million years ago.
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