By consulting the fossil record to see how quickly different creatures have gone extinct in the past, a team of scientists has found that animals are going extinct so rapidly that we are on the brink of a mass extinction. Mass extinctions-in which more than three-quarters of the species on Earth disappear-have taken place five times in the past 540 million years. But if all of the animals that are currently endangered, critically endangered, or vulnerable actually.
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