Harvard discovery could predict when the next mass extinction will occur

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The academic noted that his work gives new insight into the response of biodiversity to changes in global temperatures, especially increases in temperatures, and can be used in future global warming predictions.

Discovery to predict extinction

Using the Triton database, Scientists They emphasized how the composition of foraminiferal communities changed over millions of years. So Discover That 34 million years ago, before the extinction pulse, marine communities were concentrated far from high southern latitudes, suggesting that they migrated away from the tropics.

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the Scientists They concluded that if the movements of marine communities were monitored, future mass extinction events leading to biodiversity loss could be predicted. The next step is to open up the research to other groups of marine life such as insects or fish.