Rainforest collapse drove reptile evolution

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 18:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming devastated tropical rainforests 300 million years ago. Now scientists report the unexpected discovery that this event triggered an evolutionary burst among reptiles -- and inadvertently paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs, 100 million years later.

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