↑ History Channel's Mega Disasters program, "Gamma Ray Burst", 2007, rebroadcast: 2008-11-13. Note: The program attributes the "Ordovician extinction" (sic) explicitly as the second most grievously large extinction event after the Permian–Triassic extinction event.
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