16 Animals That Survived Mass Extinction

16 Animals That Survived Mass Extinction

Mass extinctions are nature’s ultimate reset button. When these catastrophic events hit, they wipe out most life on Earth—sometimes taking out up to 96% of all species. Yet somehow, certain animals manage to survive the apocalypse and keep going like nothing happened. These survivors aren’t necessarily the biggest or strongest creatures around. They’re the ones with just the right combination of luck, adaptability, and sheer stubbornness. Throug…

Brachiopods and forams reduced calcification costs through morphological simplification during mass extinction events - Ocean Acidification

Environmental stressors have exacerbated the collapse of marine ecosystems during mass extinctions. However, the survival strategies of marine species during mass extinctions remain unclear. Here, we investigated morphological evolution of brachiopods across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (PTME) using a database of 3,225 specimens representing 1,061 species and foraminifera across the PTME and early Toarcian oceanic […] The post Brachiopod…