A study assesses why one group of snails survived a mass extinction that wiped out most other gastropods.
published inhas started to uncover the extent of this effect. The study suggests that over half of all gastropod genera were wiped out as a result of the 200-million-year-old eruptions. It also proposes several explanations as to why one particular group of snails survived an extinction that decimated many of its closest counterparts.was one of the biggest extinction events to occur on our planet, yet we don't completely understand its impact on many animals.
According to the scientists, three potential explanations can account for the relative success of theFirst, the team states that the warming of the planet — and the subsequent warming of the seas — benefited aquatic animals with physiological preferences for warmer water. Many aquaticpossessed such an affinity. In fact, the scientists say that many of the group members' predispositions for tropical and temperate seas made them much less vulnerable to global warming as a whole.
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