Environmental disaster in southern Spain compared with Cretaceous mass extinction
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 23:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers in Spain have compared the disaster caused by the Aznalcóllar spillage in the Doñana National Park in Andalusia 11 years ago with the biggest species extinction known to date. What do these two disasters have in common? The scientists say that carrying out comparisons of this kind will make it possible to find out how ecosystems recover following mass extinctions.