Extreme environmental conditions can lead to a massive global reshuffling of biodiversity
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 10:22
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Around 252 million years ago, the world experienced a mass extinction, killing ninety percent of all animal and plant species in the world's oceans. This event, called the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, at the end of the Permian Age had consequences beyond simple loss of species: In the following five million years, the pattern of the global distribution of biodiversity appeared to be very different from those before and after this time period.