But research is uncovering how these extinction events dictated the fate of life on this planet-for instance, determining which animals first crawled onto land and which ruled the oceans.

但是，科学研究正在揭示这几次大灭绝如何改变地球生物的命运——比如，决定了首先出现在陆地的动物和统治海洋的生物。

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"If people continue with this spate of killing nesting turtles and destroying their eggs, they'll be destroying generations of turtles and their offspring and pushing these wonderful reptiles into extinction, " says project officer of the Ghana Wildlife Society, Gerrard Osei Boakye.

BBC: volunteers pulling a turtle to safety

"These measures are needed to avoid extinction of cod in the North Sea, " said a commission spokesman.

BBC: Emergency ban to save cod

Every newspaper is experimenting like mad these days, hoping to avoid extinction, but only the Post manages to wrong-foot itself just about every time it breaks its routine.

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