New evidence suggests first mass extinction was engineered by animals
Friday, July 29, 2016 - 12:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Newly discovered fossil evidence from Namibia strengthens the proposition that the world’s first mass extinction was caused by “ecosystem engineers” – newly evolved biological organisms that altered the environment so radically it drove older species to extinction. The event, known as the end-Ediacaran extinction, took place 540 million years ago. The earliest life on Earth […]