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Marine Fossils' Diversity & Extinction Rates Monday, July 14, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology
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It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates. Alroy, a researcher with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara, is the principal author of the new report published in Science. (source: ia.ucsb.edu)
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