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Author Topic: Boom and bust for sea life  (Read 1921 times)
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« on: March 11, 2005, 03:04:59 PM »

Recieved this in my yahoo email.  Looked really interesting and I thought you guys would like it.

* Boom and bust for sea life:
In a mysterious cycle, sea life diversity swells
and then shrinks again every 62 million years,
scientists have found.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/050310_seacyclefrm.htm

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« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2005, 06:34:16 PM »

I remember that. It was a bad time. Grin
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2005, 08:30:01 AM »

the evolutionary big band occured about 550 million years ago.  that gave rise to the ancestors to most common lineages of  fish
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2005, 08:10:11 AM »

I knew you'd get a kick out of it procrabber! Grin

Really mariner?  You're that old? Shocked  Do you know Moses, too? laugh Grin laugh Grin
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2005, 07:18:52 PM »

yep but it seems like only 100 years ago Undecided
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