Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world's biggest biodiversity crisis
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 14:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's largest mass extinction, approximately 252 million years ago. The thinking was based on fossil records from sites in South Africa and southwest Russia. It turns out that scientists may have been looking for the starting line in the wrong places.