Diversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows

Phys.org - Mon 18 Feb 19

The rich levels of biodiversity on land seen across the globe today are not a recent phenomenon: diversity on land has been similar for at least the last 60 million years, since soon after the ...

Biodiversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows, ScienceDaily - Tue 19 Feb 19
Diversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows, Eurekalert - Mon 18 Feb 19

Biodiversity has remained constant since the boom in life

Daily Mail - Mon 18 Feb 19

Researchers at the University of Birmingham found the average numbers of land vertebrate species across different ecosystems had not increased for tens of millions of years.