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UChicago Study Finds Mass Extinctions Remove Species But Not Ecological Variety

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UChicago scientists examined how species (including these colorful marine bivalves) are lost in mass extinctions compared to environmental changes between the tropics and the poles. Courtesy of: Stewart Edie

Study could shed light on patterns for current mass extinction

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2018

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By: Louise Lerner

Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all the species on Earth, staggered and died.

But in the seas,…

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