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Article: Swamped by climate change? Ancient wetlands defy modern rules of survival.
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- Science News
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- September 22, 1990
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Swamped by Climate Change?
Something is growing in the recesses of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, behind the dinosaur displays and the mounted African bush elephant, beyond the mobs of schoolchildren whose chatter fills the main hall. In a quiet side wing of the museum, an idea is taking shape. Two researchers who study the fossilized remains of ancient swamps are developing a new picture of how life survives in the face of change.
Paleotologists William A. DiMichele and Scott L. Wing gaze back through time to two long-ago eras when wetlands covered vast regions. DiMichele turns his clock back 315 million years to a period long before ...