Mass extinctions: 'Giant' fossils are revolutionizing current thinking
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Large-sized gastropods 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 of researchers. These specimens call into question the existence of a "Lilliput effect", the reduction in the size of organisms inhabiting postcrisis biota, normally spanning several million years.