Oxygen Depletion in Ancient Oceans Caused Major Mass Extinction (IMAGE)

Florida State University

Oxygen Depletion in Ancient Oceans Caused Major Mass Extinction

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For years, scientists struggled to connect a mechanism to this mass extinction, one of the 10 most dramatic ever recorded in Earth's history. Now, researchers from Florida State University have confirmed that this event, referred to by scientists as the Lau/Kozlowskii extinction, was triggered by an all-too-familiar culprit: rapid and widespread depletion of oxygen in the global oceans.

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Stephen Bilenky

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