Word: extinctionism
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For six minutes the 1,712 delegates to the annual Labor Party conference in the seaside resort of Blackpool stood and roared an ovation for the man they believe has rescued them from political extinction. From Labor's perspective, the tribute was richly deserved. Neil Kinnock, 44, the copper-haired...
The history of life on earth has been punctuated by mass extinctions, the sudden disappearance of a large variety of plants and animals, possibly as the result of impacts by giant meteors or comets. In one of the most dramatic die- offs, 65 million years ago, more than half of...
Gould pointed to the dinosaurs, saying that there was no biological reason for the dinosaur mass extinction, which he said was probably caused by some type of extraterrestrial impact.
The "Fossilgate" controversy is rapidly nearing extinction, because Grantham received the permit before Nunziata raised the issue in Parliament. Harvard and the Nova Scotia Museum are currently deciding the final home of the fossils, Shubin said.
Mark Anders, 38, a Berkeley graduate student who works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he...