Field Museum: Fossils of a Saber-Toothed Top Predator Reveal a Scramble for Dominance Leading Up to 'The Great Dying'
May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
CHICAGO, Illinois, May 23 (TNSjou) -- The Field Museum issued the following news release on May 22, 2023:
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, Earth experienced a mass extinction so devastating that it's become known as "the Great Dying." Massive volcanic eruptions triggered catastrophic climate change, killing off nine out of every ten species and eventually setting the stage for the dinosaurs. But the Great Dying was a long goodbye-- the extinction event too . . .
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, Earth experienced a mass extinction so devastating that it's become known as "the Great Dying." Massive volcanic eruptions triggered catastrophic climate change, killing off nine out of every ten species and eventually setting the stage for the dinosaurs. But the Great Dying was a long goodbye-- the extinction event too . . .