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Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...
Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNThese Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs—and Their Descendants Are Still Alive TodaySmall and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...
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Crocodiles Survived Two Mass Extinction Events Because They Could Eat Almost Anything - MSNCrocodylomorphs endured both the fourth and fifth mass extinction events. The fourth mass extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, occurred around 200 million years ago.
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Chip Chick on MSNIt Turns Out This Mass Extinction Event In A Tropical Cloud Forest Never Happened, Which Means Plants Thought To Be Extinct Are Alive And Well - MSNApparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...
Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...
Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...
This is normally called the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event as it took place at the boundary between the two periods, which was 201.4 million years ago. Apart from this, ...
Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...
The K-Pg extinction is the most recent of five events in Earth’s history that scientists consider mass extinctions, defined by paleontologists as events where more than 75 percent of species vanish ...
First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...
The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...
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