Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 18:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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 the mass extinction by living in Antarctica.

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