The Coral Triangle's Remarkably High Biodiversity Arose Relatively Recently (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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The Coral Triangle's Remarkably High Biodiversity Arose Relatively Recently (4 of 4)

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Quarry in East Kalimantan, Borneo, exposing sedimentary rocks containing fossil bryozoans that inhabited a tropical environment 15 million yrs ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 04 April 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Di Martino at Natural History Museum in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Differences in extinction rates drove modern biogeographic patterns of tropical marine biodiversity."

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[Credit: Paul D. Taylor]

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