image: Illustration of marine fossils that have existed since the Cambrian. Represented taxa include brachiopods, trilobites, ammonites, bivalves, and decapods. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 26th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.J. Rominger at Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, NM, and colleagues was titled, "Nonequilibrium evolution of volatility in origination and extinction explains fat-tailed fluctuations in Phanerozoic biodiversity." view more
Credit: Mesa Shumacher/Santa Fe Institute