Mass extinctions: 'giant' fossils are revolutionizing current thinking

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 13:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large-sized gastropods (up to 7 cm) dating from only 1 million years after the greatest mass extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic extinction, have been discovered by an international team including a French researcher from the Laboratoire Biogéosciences (CNRS/Université de Bourgogne), working with German, American and Swiss colleagues.

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