New evidence shows carbon's importance to ocean life's survival 252 million years ago

Friday, April 3, 2015 - 18:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A new study led by scientists with The University of Texas at Arlington demonstrates for the first time how elemental carbon became an important construction material of some forms of ocean life after one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of Earth more than 252 million years ago.

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