Palaeobiology: Born and Gone in Global Warming.
Why ichthyosaurs - marine Mesozoic reptiles - disappeared before the dinosaur extinction has remained a mystery. New research suggests they may have gone extinct stepwise, during one of the most extreme greenhouse periods in the history of complex life-forms.
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. Electronic address: rmotani@ucdavis.edu.
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