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Global mass extinctions follow regular 27-million-year cycle, may be linked to Earth’s journey through Milky Way
Researchers at New York University have discovered that mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history have an underlying cycle of roughly 27 million years, which may be tied to the planet’s path through the galaxy. Mass extinction events affecting land-dwelling animals from mammals and birds to amphibians and reptiles have occurred numerous times throughout our planet’s history, but the researchers concentrated on 10 distinct episodes of intensified extinctions over the past 300 million years. Their new analysis, published in the journal Historical Biology, finds that mass extinction events closely align with asteroid impacts and i

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