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<p>Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles and their rhinoceros-sized prey on land, as well as vast numbers of fish and other species in the sea.</p><p>This book documents not only what happened durin
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael George Benton, Michael Benton
- Publisher
- New York: Thames & Hudson
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500051160
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Natural Disasters
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (708 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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