Matthew Clapham

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Paleontologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz; quoted in Nature's 20 October 2026 report

An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests three of Earth's 'big five' mass extinctions were gradual declines rather than sudden cataclysms. The model, OneStrata, estimates when more than 110,000 species appeared and vanished over 540 million years.

Updated Oct 26