Quick recovery of marine life after extinction in Perm

washington - Fossils include sharks, marine reptiles and squid-like species have been excavated in the US state of Idaho have shown that the marine ecosystem has recovered very quickly from the highest mortality of species in the history of the Earth. During the Permian geological age, which ended about 252 million years ago, explained roughly 90 per cent of the then-living animals die.

No one and a half million years later, a pittance in evolution, there were remarkably back. That a group of scientists, published under the direction of the French paleontologist Arnaud Brayard Wednesday. 'Our discovery was unexpected. 'His team was in Bear Lake County, the fossilized remains of some thirty species from the beginning of the Triassic with a great variety and a complex structure.

Even the impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago extinction include resulted dinosaur, spent his earthly life not as close to total destruction. The cause of the mass extinction at the Permian is under discussion. Many researchers think that by huge volcanic eruptions in the north of Siberia as much greenhouse and toxic gases are released to the climate and conditions completely changed in the oceans.