{"id":117222,"date":"2020-12-16T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mass-extinctions-happen-every-27-million-years"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:22:54","slug":"mass-extinctions-happen-every-27-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mass-extinctions-happen-every-27-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Mass Extinctions Happen Every 27 Million Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mass-extinctions-happen-every-27-million-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Checks math.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have new evidence that Earth\u2019s many periodic mass extinctions <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/artificial-intelligence-discovers-surprising-patterns-in-earths-biological-mass-extinctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/artificial-intelligence-discovers-surprising-patterns-in-earths-biological-mass-extinctions\/\">follow a cycle of about 27 million years<\/a>, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth\u2019s life-fostering timespan. The artificial intelligence analysis could also shift how evolutionary scientists think about the aftermath of mass extinctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Checks math.) Scientists have new evidence that Earth\u2019s many periodic mass extinctions follow a cycle of about 27 million years, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth\u2019s life-fostering timespan. The artificial intelligence analysis could also shift how evolutionary scientists think about the aftermath of mass extinctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}