When Life Nearly Died author-robert-vale kind to the planet

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Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp’s widow

but also in many ways to create it

and even their sacred or mystical associations

When Life Nearly Died author-robert-vale kind to the planetIt is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well known is a much greater catastrophe that took place 250 million years ago: at least 90 per cent of life was destroyed, including sabre toothed reptiles and their rhinoceros sized prey, as well as vast numbers of fish and other species in the sea. This book documents not only what happened during