Geological cycle causes biodiversity booms and busts every 60 million years, research suggests
A mysterious cycle of booms and busts in marine biodiversity over the past 500 million years could be tied to a periodic uplifting of the world's continents, scientists report in the March issue of The Journal of Geology. Source: University of Chicago Press Journals - Discipline: Genetics...
Source: LabSpaces - Wednesday, 22 February
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