New fossil site in China shows long recovery of life from the largest extinction in Earth's history

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A major new fossil site in south-west China has filled in a sizeable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to a paper co-authored by Professor Mike Benton, in the School of Earth Sciences, and published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Centre in China...

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