Researcher Moves Closer to Understanding Cause of Mass Extinction
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 15:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded many theories. However, new findings from J. Tyler Faith, GW Ph.D. candidate in the hominid paleobiology doctoral program, and Todd Surovell, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, reveal that a mass extinction occurred in a geological instant.