Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions.