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Mass extinctions are short geological windows when biodiversity crashed and huge numbers of species died out. This section covers the five major mass extinctions, earth-bound and extraterrestrial…

History of life and geological timescale

Life on Earth has a long history that palaeontologists reconstruct from fossils and rock strata. This section covers life’s early sequence, the geological timescale (aeons → eras → periods →…

Fossil formation and dating

Fossils are the main evidence for the history of life. This section covers what fossils are, how fossilisation happens, the main fossil types, why the fossil record is incomplete, and how scientists…

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