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New Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia Shed Light on End-Permian Mass Extinction

New Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia Shed Light on End-Permian Mass Extinction

Paleontologists have identified the myriad of animals — saber-toothed predators, burrowing foragers and a large, salamander-like creature — that thrived in southern Pangea just before the end-Permian mass extinction, about 252 million years ago. An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the Late Permian epoch in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several …

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