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Geologic Findings Undermine Theories of Permian Mass Extinction Timing
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New scientific findings by geologist Robert Gastaldo of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and colleagues call into question popular theories about the largest mass extinction in Earth's ...
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The flash recovery of ammonoids after the most massive extinction of all time
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 02, 2009 |
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After the End-Permian extinction 252.6 million years ago, ammonoids diversified and recovered 10 to 30 times faster than previous estimates.
Fossil magnetism helps prove mass extinction theory
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May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Were major extinction events real biological catastrophes or were they merely the result of gaps in the fossil record? Research by a team of geologists from the Universities of Bristol, Plymouth, ...
Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Reptiles changed their walking posture from sprawling to upright immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction, the biggest crisis in the history of life that occurred some 250 million ...
Extinction by asteroid a rarity: 'Sick Earth' extinctions more likely
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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In geology as in cancer research, the silver bullet theory always gets the headlines and nearly always turns out to be wrong.
Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 252 million years ago
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Oct 01, 2008 |
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The shorelines of ancient Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic were an important refuge for some of the world's earliest animals, most of which were wiped out by a mysterious global extinction event some 252 ...
Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...
Recovering from a mass extinction
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Jan 18, 2008 |
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[B]The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol[/B] The ful ...
Another view of mass extinctions is heard
Mar 30, 2006 |
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A University of Washington paleontologist says most mass extinctions were caused by gradual climate change and not catastrophic asteroid impacts.
Petrified forest found in New Mexico
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Oct 12, 2007 |
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An amateur paleontologist has uncovered petrified forests near the proposed Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in New Mexico's Robledos Mountains.
Ancient volcano may have caused mass extinction
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May 28, 2009 |
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A previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260million years ago has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds.
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