extinction

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extinction

Saber-toothed cat

  • Carr, Aaron
The saber-toothed cat went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. The saber-tooth, or Smilodon, was one of the largest cats ever to walk Earth. It used its long, blade-like teeth to hunt animals as massive as mastodons.

When life nearly died

the greatest mass extinction of all time
  • Benton, Michael J
2003

Night comes to the Cretaceous

dinosaur extinction and the transformation of modern geology
  • Powell, James Lawrence
1998
Explains how the cataclysmic-collision theory of dinosaur extinction came about and the scientific melee that ensued.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

  • Branley, Franklyn M
1989
Describes various scientific theories which explore the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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