Shell life species weren't competing as they adjusted to Earth's largest extinction, claims study

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Sep 14, 2023, 10:42 am146 pts
One of the biggest crises in Earth history was marked by a revolution in the shellfish—brachiopods, sometimes called "lamp shells" were replaced everywhere ecologically by the bivalves, such as oysters and clams. This happened as a result of the devastating end-Permian mass extinction which reset the…

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