There was a great wave of extinctions that, ultimately, cou… - Stephen Baxter

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There was a great wave of extinctions that, ultimately, couldn’t be stopped. How bad was it? Well, Oona, we don’t really know. We didn’t even get as far as counting all the species before destroying them. Yes, that’s right; a lot of species must have died out before we even knew they were there. Shivery thought, isn’t it?

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Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.

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