Researchers pinpoint date and rate of Earth's most extreme extinction
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 14:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It's well known that Earth's most severe mass extinction occurred about 250 million years ago. What's not well known is the specific time when the extinctions occurred. A team of researchers from North America and China have published a paper in Science this week which explicitly provides the date and rate of extinction.