249: The Science of Mass Extinction

Let's start this year with a bang, and talk about all the times nearly everything on the planet died (and how humans might be making it happen again...)

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References and Further Reading
Mass Extinctions
https://www.britannica.com/science/mass-extinction-event
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/early-life-earth-animal-origins
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mass-extinction
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass-extinction-and-what-can-we-do-about-it
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/mass-extinction
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/2/l_032_04.html
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1400253
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206664432/21-species-extinct-fish-wildlife-birds

Anthropocene
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-anthropocene.html
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/anthropocene/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/64987187
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-disturbing-remote-island-plastic.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8016130/