The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a critical role. Reading time 3 minutes Fantastic numbers of leathery, beaked ...
At a time when Earth was going through massive environmental changes and most species were wiped out by Siberian volcanic eruptions, some animals actually managed to survive the chaos. During this ...
To survive the mass extinction that occurred 252 million years ago, an ancient group of animals resorted to a "live fast, die young" strategy, palaeontologists say. The lystrosaurus significantly ...