The mass extinctions that occurred 250 million years ago and 65 million years ago may have been due to gradual process or Catastrophic events.
I think the organisms in that ecosystem would most likely have an problem in there ecosystem because if any animal adapted to that environment they would most likely be already adapted to that environment
<span>Geographically isolated populations may live under different environmental conditions, which can lead to each of these separated populations adapting differently to these different conditions. Given enough time, these little changes can lead to those populations diverging into distinct species after so many successive generations. </span>
Missense mutations.
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