Sentence examples for largest extinction from inspiring English sources

Given current rates of population growth, he says, we have to get a lot smarter about conservation, or we will be responsible for "one of the largest extinction episodes in history".

New samples include a two-billion-year-old chunk of iron from Michigan suggesting that ancient oceans held little oxygen, and a 250-million-year-old piece of Siberian basalt dating from the largest extinction in the planet's history.

The new footprints, uncovered over the past decade by Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki of the University of Warsaw at three quarries in the Holy Cross Mountains of central Poland, push back the lineage to within a couple of million years of the Permian-Triassic boundary, the largest extinction in Earth's history.

Thin air may have forced animals down from higher latitudes 250 million years ago, crowding them into the lowlands and possibly helping along the largest extinction in the history of the planet, according to a new study in today's issue of Science.

Tiny microbes on the bottom of the ocean floor may have been responsible for the largest extinction event our planet has ever seen, according to a new study.

This radiation took place in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction, the largest extinction in the history of life (e.g. [ 5]), and gave rise to the major clades – dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodylomorphs – that dominated a diverse range of niches in terrestrial ecosystems for the subsequent 135 million years of the Mesozoic (Jurassic and Cretaceous).

Third, these five major otophysan lineages survived the end-Triassic mass extinction, which was one of the five largest extinctions in Earth's history in which 80% of all species became extinct [ 117].

"Methane hydrate was a key cause of the global warming that led to one of the largest extinctions in the earth's history," Ryo Matsumoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo who has spent 20 years researching the subject, told Bloomberg in December.

Moreover, the sample with higher volume fraction of magnetic particle has a larger extinction coefficient.

HPABS is a synthetic competitive inhibitor (Ki=7.17×10−6 M) for the cresolase activity with a large extinction coefficient at 365 nm.

In the nanowire structure, the directions of ENZ and ENP resonances are such that they interact with propagating waves and subsequently lead to large extinction.