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Ups and Downs of Biodiversity After Mass Extinction

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Science Daily

Publication Date
2012-12-21

The climate after the largest mass extinction so far 252 million years ago was cool, later very warm and then cool again. Thanks to the cooler temperatures, the diversity of marine fauna ballooned, as paleontologists from the University of Zurich have reconstructed.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121221081615.htm