Join the Paleontological Research Institution virtually for Science in the Virtual Pub to celebrate Darwin Days.
The talk, the Late Devonian Mass Extinction: the view from New York, will be given by Andrew Bush, Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.
If we didn’t have fossils, we wouldn’t know much about extinction: fossils were key evidence in convincing scientists that species actually do go extinct and that many species go extinct at the same time during global catastrophes. As we approach the “Sixth Mass Extinction”, what else can fossils tell us? I’ll talk about lessons from the Late Devonian mass extinction in New York and northern Pennsylvania, with a focus on animals living in shallow marine habitats. Why did some species live and others die, and what happened to the survivors after the extinction?