Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago.(Book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Science News | Date: February 18, 2006 | Copyright information

EXTINCTION: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago DOUGLAS H. ERWIN

While most people are aware of the cataclysmic meteor impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, few know of the earlier, far greater, extinction of 95 percent of life on Earth. Erwin, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, describes how life on Earth was nearly destroyed at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago. He firs...

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