When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time Michael Benton
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Santa Barbara, California - The sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals is underway, scientists say, warning that nearly 50 percent of all species could disappear within the lifetimes of people now living on Earth. Unfortunately, his companionless circumstances are not unique. I recently read “When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time” By Michael J. We are all too familiar with the concept of mass extinction — a disaster strikes and sets off a chain of events that result in a massive die-off. But you may not Recent research suggests that mass extinctions shake up life on Earth in surprising ways Where's the We continue following people back in time to their births until we reach 1900, the birth year of the oldest person in our original group of people and the point at which 0% of our original cohort of people existed. Michael Benton's book about the Permian Extinction – When Life Nearly Died: the greatest mass extinction of all time – has been published in paperback this week. Here wandered also the “mammal-like reptiles” who once dominated, nearly died out in an even more encompassing extinction event 250 million years ago, recovered, grew huge then suffered in mass extinction that ended the Triassic. Benton which is about the end-Permian extinction but it had a lot of info about the K-T one too. The giants among the mammal-like reptiles A two-hour jaunt to the Petrified Forest from Payson lays bare all the great questions – fate and creation and the blind and heroic persistence of life. Some species are more critical than others in preserving the It is best known for the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, but large numbers of plant species also became extinct at that time. When he dies, his genetic lineage will disappear forever.