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The History of Love
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- The last mass extinction happened about 65 million years ago, when an asteroid probably collided with our planet, killing all the dinosaurs and about half of the marine animals.†
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- Before that was the Triassic extinction (also caused by an asteroid, or possibly volcanoes), which wiped out up to ninety-five percent of the species, and before that was the Late Devonian extinction.†
Definitions:
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(asteroid) one of the millions of rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)