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  • The greatest killer the planet has ever known was the Permian/Triassic extinctor, which killed about 99% of all of Earthly life; followed by the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctor, which merely killed about 95% of all animals living then.

    Daily Telegraph « Climate Audit 2006

  • Hucine, Micipsa pater, beneficia tua evasere, [87] ut, quem tu parem cum liberis tuis regnique participem fecisti, is potissimum stirpis tuae extinctor sit?

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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