Life on land and tropical overheating 250 million years ago
1/09/2018 03:00:00 PM
One of the key effects of the end-Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was rapid heating of tropical waters and atmospheres. How this affected life on land has been uncertain until now.
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Dr Massimo Bernardi and Professor Mike Benton from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol show how early reptiles were expelled from the tropics.
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