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How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events

By Kate Simpson, PhD Candidate, Extinction Studies, University of Leeds

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass extinctions, ecosystems are placed under immense pressure, at above-average speeds. Here, the language changes from the commonplace to the exceptional.

The most recent of these events occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years…

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