#  An Extinction in the Blink of an Eye 

 





February 10, 2014

 

 

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EAPS researchers Professor Sam Bowring and graduate student Seth Burgess find that the end-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years — much faster than earlier estimates.

[MITnews](http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/an-extinction-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0210.html)



 

 

 



 

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