Is algae secret ingredient in mass extinctions?
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 18:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Mass extinctions that wiped entire species off the face of the Earth are often blamed on catastrophic occurrences, but a new hypothesis points to a different culprit: lowly algae.
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