20,000 fossils tell how life escaped extinction

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 20:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A giant cache of nearly 20,000 fossil reptiles, shellfish and a host of other prehistoric creatures unearthed from a mountain in China is now revealing how life recovered after the most devastating mass extinction on Earth.

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