This extinction decimated land species, too

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

About 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its most devastating extinction in the history of life on our planet. And while scientists have long known that more than 80 percent of ocean-dwelling species disappeared, they have long debated what happened on land.

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