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T. rex and the crater of doom
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Walter Alvarez |
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized d… |
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The medea hypothesis
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Peter Douglas Ward |
In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere - one that has frightening implications f… |
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When life nearly died
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M. J. Benton |
"Today it 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. It is far less widely understood that a much gr… |
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When life nearly died
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M. J. Benton |
Today it 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 catastroph… |
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Mass extinctions
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Christopher Lampton |
Explains various theories about how dramatic changes in the earth's surface could have caused periodic mass extinctions, with an emphasis on the disappearance of the dinosaurs. |
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Ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions, and other popular theories about man's past
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William H. Stiebing |
Discusses various accounts of the flood around the world and the quest for Noah's Ark, Atlantis, Velikovsky and his theories of cosmic catastrophism, the search for ancient astronauts in the Bible, t… |
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Hi no tori
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Osamu Tezuka |
Considered by many to be one of the finest works of Japanese comics art ever produced, Phoenix: Future is a rollicking space-age adventure, an apocalyptic cautionary tale, a fable of human frailty an… |
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