Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs
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Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · View the paper (DOI)
A new study has found that the mass extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs simultaneously led to the evolution of three major lineages of modern frogs, which make up about 88% of living species. This finding suggests that the survivors filled up new ecological niches after the extinction event, resulting in the rapid diversification...
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs Florida Museum of Natural History · Jul 3, 2017 · first to report
- Frogs illustrate the creative destruction of mass extinctions University of Texas at Austin · Jul 3, 2017