Rewritten Narrative on the Evolution and Diversity of Reptiles
Reptiles enjoyed a massive coming-out party some 250 million years ago, during the conclusion of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic.
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Reptiles enjoyed a massive coming-out party some 250 million years ago, during the conclusion of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic.
Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party.
A new study by Harvard researchers challenges this theory that the explosion in diversity of reptiles was triggered by two of mass extinction events, around 261 and 252 million years ago.
A spike in global temperatures could have been the trigger for the rise of reptiles towards the end of the Permian Period, not a mass extinction of mammals as had been thought
Scientists have bridged a missing link in the reptile tree of life.