But We're So Young, and So Are All Our Nicest Species

Mass extinction comes every 62 million years, UC physicists discover

Guess we're due for a mass extinction on planet Earth. Every 62 million years, millions of life forms on Earth go extinct. And the last one was 65 million years ago.

Scientists don't know what's happening yet, but they're trying to find possible explanations. Wonder if this could be related to the magnetic pole shift that occurs on Earth every so often?

The north pole is slowly wandering across the Canadian Arctic Ocean. And YOU thought it just stayed in one place and behaved. You stupidhead! Magnetic reversals happen about every 700,000 years. Magnetic Reversals discussed at Geological Survey of Canada.

Well, that time frame doesn't match up. Mass extinctions every 62 million years, magnetic reversals every 700,000 years... Maybe there are mass extinctions just every magnetic reversal that happens on a Wednesday. In August. Of a leap year.

Either way, it's been nice knowing ya! Gee... I'm sorry I called you a stupidhead.