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Which sea creatures died out along with the dinosaurs?
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What fish thought long extinct was caught alive in 1938?
Answer: Coelacanth
Why: A live coelacanth of a second species was caught off Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 1998.
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Where did the eruptions behind the end-Permian extinction happen?
Answer: Siberia
Why: Geologists call the lava fields the Siberian Traps, from the Swedish word for stairs.
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What is the shrinking of animals after a mass extinction called?
Answer: Lilliput effect
Why: Its name comes from Lilliput, the island of tiny people in Gulliver's Travels.
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What animals alive today are dinosaurs?
Answer: Birds
Why: Birds evolved from small feathered theropods, the same dinosaur group as Velociraptor.
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Which driver of species loss did IPBES rank first in 2019?
Answer: Land and sea use
Why: IPBES ranked climate change third, behind land and sea use and the direct exploitation of organisms.
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What animal dominated land right after the end-Permian extinction?
Answer: Lystrosaurus
Why: Lystrosaurus fossils found in Antarctica matched those of southern Africa, evidence that the continents were once joined.
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