Mass extinction survivors took 2M years to evolve
U. BUFFALO (US) — Following one of Earth’s greatest mass extinctions, a type of tiny marine organism didn’t begin to rapidly develop new physical traits until about 2 million years after its competition became extinct.The discovery challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions....
Source: Futurity.org - Tuesday, 14 February
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