New Findings Rock Long-Held Assumptions About Ancient Mass Extinction
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
New evidence gathered from the Karoo Basin in South Africa sheds light on a catastrophic extinction event that occurred more than 250 million years ago and wiped out more than 90 percent of life in Earth's oceans and about 70 percent of animal species on land.