Recent discoveries of long-gone marine invertebrates call into question the occurrence of a catastrophic global extinction hundreds of millions of years ago. The loss of diversity wasn’t as widespread and didn’t last as long as paleontologists had previously thought, several researchers now suggest.
The extinction during the Late Devonian period is widely considered one of the five massive extinctions in Earth’s prehistory.
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