That Time the Earth Almost Suffocated

That Time the Earth Almost Suffocated
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Scientists may have figured out what caused a potential mass extinction over half a billion years ago and separately discovered a live animal that we had only known about through fossils!

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25 Comments

  1. Maybe be less Hyperbolic & Melodramatic about climate change & more Serious about Overpopulation. That is, if you actually care about biodiversity.

    Nature can easily adapt to even 3C; it cannot adapt to 8 Billion human Beings & our massive agricultural expenditures.

    Your move "Scientists". Truth matters.

  2. So the climate has always changed? And without human intervention? Maybe the big brains of today may be able to draw some conclusions contrary to currently held beliefs from this NEW RESEARCH 🤡

  3. It sounds like the little clams may have pulled the same trick as horses. They were once native but died off during the end of the last ice age, and then human activity brought them back, where they’re fitting right in without demolishing the ecosystem.

  4. I approve of this theory because I cannot stand when people talk about Ediacaran fauna like "they were just made of lose and fail and that;s the ONLY reason why the VASTly superior Cambrian" blah blah blah. gtfo with that, they were around a lot longer than humans. People are too cocky.

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