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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

By Michael J. Benton
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Unabridged — 11 hours, 33 minutes
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By Michael J. Benton
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Unabridged — 11 hours, 33 minutes
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Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact sixty-five million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed.



When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism:...