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Biggest five – or six? – mass extinctions ever

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April 24, 2015

More from AsapSCIENCE: Animals we wish still existed

Bottom line: Video from AsapSCIENCE describes Earth’s biggest extinction events in under five minutes.

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Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.