Washington, April 7, 2016, 09:14 – REGNUM US paleontologists from the Chicago museum of natural history found that allows living things to survive the global cataclysms and mass extinctions, according to the journal Scientific reports.
According to their theory, the survival of primarily contribute to low life expectancy, small size and early breeding.
Their findings are confirmed by example listozavrov – small animal-like reptiles that survived the most massive of the known extinctions
Permian extinction that occurred 252 million years ago and led to the extinction of 96%. marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species, listozavram survived. Scientists have found that the life expectancy of these reptiles after the catastrophe has dropped from 14 to three years.
In addition, listozavry began to multiply at an earlier age. On top of that, they have drastically decreased in size: to describe their weight events reached 200 kg, and after the disaster listozavry become
The study researchers consider to be important, since we believe that world. approaching the next mass extinction caused by human activity.
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