Survivors (IMAGE)

Brown University

Survivors

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Lystrosaurus, a relative to mammals, was one of a handful of "disaster taxa" to escape from the rubble of the Permian Period, along with the meter-high spore-tree Pleuromeia. Low diversity of animals delayed the full recovery of land ecosystems by millions of years.

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Victor Leshyk

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