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Revisiting the history of animal extinctions

PNAS Science Sessions

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550 Million Years Ago - What's the Cause of the Loss of Diversity?

About 80% of our white sea taxa don't survive through to that nama assemblage. There were three hypotheses for what might be causing this change in diversity. The pattern we're seeing from this database is preferential survival of taxa who look like they're built to adapt to lower oxygen conditions.

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