The 'victims' can fall down dramatically or make dramatic dying noises.
Ranked in descending order of severity, they are: Permian extinction (about 266 million to 252 million years ago), the most dramatic die-off, eliminating about half of all families, some 95 percent of marine species (nearly wiping out brachiopods and corals), and about 70 percent of land species (including plants, insects, and vertebrates).
During that time, southern bison experienced a dramatic die-off, shrinking to just a few closely related individuals.
Down the block at the Palace Theater, the Stamford Symphony and Greenwich Choral Society offer a performance of Mendelssohn's dramatic cantata "Die Erste Walpurgisnacht" ("The First Witches' Sabbath").
The Eltzbacher Commission (named after its leader, the law professor Paul Eltzbacher) published its report in December 1914 with the dramatic title "Die deutsche Volksernährung und der englische Aushungerungsplan", which roughly translates as "the German people and the English plan to starve them".
Robin Williams, a comic and sitcom star in the 1970s who became an Oscar-winning dramatic actor, died Monday at 63 in Marin County.
His death shocked the nation, prompting an... Robin Williams, who rose to fame on television as a memorable alien in "Mork & Mindy" and went on to become an Oscar-winning dramatic actor, died Monday at 63 in Marin County.
Robin Williams, who rose to fame on television as a memorable alien in "Mork & Mindy" and went on to become an Oscar-winning dramatic actor, died Monday at 63 in Marin County.
While temperature stress can enhance innate immunity and resistance to disease in many insects [24], the dramatic widespread die-offs of corals in response to thermal stress raise the question of how immunity interacts with temperature stress in cnidarians.
And it sounds dramatic, but you die inside if you don't.
