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Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss

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Mountain building linked to major extinction event half a billion years ago

Mountain building linked to major extinction event half a billion years ago
As life on Earth rapidly expanded a little over 500 million years ago during the "Cambrian explosion," Earth had tectonic plates slowly crashing into each other, building mountains and starting a series of unfortunate events that led to a mass…

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