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Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event, aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a Science study of an Early Triassic-age fossil site in the Arctic.
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Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities
Tetrapods invaded oceanic environments after the cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction (EPME), with temnospondyl amphibian to reptile-dominated assemblages succeeding across the Early Triassic [~251...