Previously Unknown Mass Extinction Occurred 30 Million Years Ago in Africa and Arabia
Nearly 63% of Afro-Arabian mammalian species went extinct approximately 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch), after Earth’s climate shifted from swampy to icy. A Pleistocene landscape. Image credit: Roman Uchytel, via the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. In a new study, University of Salford’s Dr. Dorien de Vries and colleagues looked…
bubmagOctober 8, 2021