Did Gravitational Tides Cause Earth’s Extinctions?

This illustration shows a massive tidal wave created by the flyby of a planetary mass object. New research says Earth may have experienced multiple dangerous flybys that contributed to or caused extinctions in the last 600 million years. Image Credit: Fargion 2026. PoS.

Many of Earth’s mass extinctions await clear explanations. We know an impact wiped out the dinosaurs, but what about the planet’s other extinction events? New research says flybys of planetary mass objects could’ve been responsible.

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