Scientists show how some species survive rapid climate change – and others don’t

Why some species died out and others didn’t during the Earth’s second largest mass extinction has been revealed in a new study.

It coincided with a short but intense ice age and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers believe that species died out if large portions of their habitat were lost to ice sheets and falling sea levels.

Those that had always been confined to warm tropical waters were also most likely [...]