Event that wiped out much of Earth's biology happened slowly: study

Vancouver Sun Monday 6th February, 2012

Fresh evidence gathered from a 24-metre layer of rock on an Ellesmere Island fiord has led a 14-member international scientific team — including a University of Calgary researcher — to conclude that the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history unfolded slowly, over a period of hundreds of thousands of years.

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