Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Sixth Mass Extinction Graphics



From the NY Times via BioCreativity.

I have not seen the original article, but I suspect they are excluding the megafauna that was wiped between 25k to 10k years ago.  From the paleo POV - and the likely cause *cough*us*cough* - this is the same mass extinction that's on a roll.  25k years is hard to distinguish in the geological record.  10k is about as fine grained as you get.  Esp when compared to the other mass extinctions.

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