Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions
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- Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03316-4 An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought.