The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now desert in far northwestern Western Australia, are changing the picture of who first took charge in the seas after Earth’s worst mass extinction. About 252 million years ago, the end-Permian crisis tore through life on land and in the oceans. Soon after,…
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