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Permian Extinction Triggered Rise Of Complex Marine Organisms

While the Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out an estimated 95 percent of marine species, it also laid the foundation for the explosive growth in complex marine organisms and ecosystems. US and Australian researchers say that the end-Permian event that occurred 250 million years ago triggered an abrupt shift to the current dominance of higher-metabolism, mobile […]

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