Friday, March 11, 2016

Climate change helped kill off ancient ichthyosaurs

For 150 million years during the age of the dinosaurs, a group of dolphin-like reptiles called ichthyosaurs ruled the ocean – until everything started to go wrong.

After multiplying into about 100 known species, ichthyosaurs began to disappear from the oceans around the middle of the Cretaceous...



via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/1XjaIxn

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