May 31, 2016

Reproduction of a marine environment in Antarctica at the end of the Cretaceous (Image courtesy James McKay)

An article published in the journal “Nature Communications” describes a research based on the analysis of more than 6,000 fossils of Antarctic marine organisms concluding that the mass extinction occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period that wiped out the dinosaurs was as deadly in the polar regions. This contradicts the idea that in far south regions of the world there would be less danger during that event.