Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
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Stanford-led researchers published in PNAS that metabolism—specifically vulnerability to temperature increase and oxygen decline—determined survival rates during the Permian-Triassic extinction 252 million years ago, explaining why mollusks (clams, snails) survived at higher rates than brachiopods and sea lilies, reshaping modern ocean fauna.
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