Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 09:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team including paleontologists from the University of Zurich has established based on fossils from the Southwestern USA.

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