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Bang and blame

机译：and不休

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Marketing is everything. Dinosaurs were introduced to the public in the 1850s, when life-size models of them were used to decorate the most popular tourist attraction in the world-London's Crystal Palace. The "Bone Wars" between Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh, to transport dinosaur fossils from the quarries of the newly opening American west to the museums of the established east, gave them wealthy sponsors, such as Andrew Carnegie. And the creatures' spectacular lives were rounded with a spectacular death when it was demonstrated to the satisfaction of most palaeontologists that they were wiped out by a collision between the Earth and an asteroid. A storybook ending to a storybook existence. For many people, dinosaurs are prehistoric life. Yet the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65m years ago, though accompanied by that of many other creatures at the same time, was not the biggest die-off in world history. That distinction belongs to the end of the Permian period, some 250m years ago. The end of the Permian was marked by the extinction of 90% of the Earth's species. They may not have been as spectacular as the dinosaurs, but they included some noteworthy reptiles, such as the sailback Dimetrodon illustrated above.
机译：营销就是一切。恐龙是在1850年代向公众介绍的，当时使用真人大小的模型来装饰世界上最受欢迎的旅游景点-伦敦的水晶宫。爱德华·科普和奥特尼尔·马什之间的“骨头大战”，是将恐龙化石从新开放的美国西部采石场运到既定东部的博物馆，这给了他们丰富的赞助商，例如安德鲁·卡内基。当大多数古生物学家都满意地证明，由于地球与小行星之间的碰撞，这些生物被消灭了，这些生物的壮观生命被一个壮观的死亡所环绕。故事书以故事书的存在为结尾。对于许多人来说，恐龙是史前生活。然而，尽管白垩纪六千五百万年前的恐龙灭绝，但同时也伴随着许多其他生物的灭绝，并不是世界历史上最大的灭绝。这种区别属于大约二亿五千万年前的二叠纪时期的结束。二叠纪末期的标志是地球上90％的物种灭绝。它们可能不像恐龙那么壮观，但是它们包括一些值得注意的爬行动物，例如上面说明的后帆Dimetrodon。

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