@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found The marine mollusks with coiled shells, one of paleontology’s great icons, flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that wiped out the […]
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WFS News:Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
August 19th, 2016 Riffin
A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following the famous Chicxulub asteroid impact, caused global […]