In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a “land of fire” at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Emese M. Bordy of the University of Cape Town and colleagues.

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Highlands ichnosite at the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary…

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