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Extinction—or just unseen? What Centinela reveals about biodiversity data gaps

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of ...
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Study suggests Earth’s first mass extinction may have been overlooked

A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...