Big Five extinction timeline (IMAGE)
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The researchers compared their model to the magnitude of Earth’s “Big Five” mass extinctions. The illustration above indicates the percentage of biodiversity lost during each event (left). At lower right, the loss of marine life from the present to 2300 is projected for high- and low-greenhouse gas emissions scenarios with the accompanying global temperature change.
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Data by Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch with illustrations by Yesenia Román
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