Posted on Dec 26, 2020 in Climate Change, Planet Earth
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So they’re kind of like dark matter,” said paleontologist David Jablonski of the University of Chicago about the sanctuaries, the “refugia” that have never been found in the fossil record, but sheltered the shell-shocked and decimated species of Earth’s past mass extinctions until they were able to repopulate the planet in ensuing eons.
“Where Will the Sanctuaries Be?”
“We think they’re there because we can’t see them,” he told Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World, who asked that if the sixth major mass extinction of the Phanerozoic, the biological “perfect storm,” is coming, where will the refugia be? “There won’t be many,” Jablonski said glumly.
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