Australian Cliffside (IMAGE)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Australian Cliffside

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This is a view of Coalcliff in New South Wales, Australia, where researchers discovered evidence that Earth's largest extinction may have extinguished plant life nearly 400,000 years before marine animal species disappeared.

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Christopher Fielding

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