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TIL that 2.4 billion years ago, the evolution of oxygen-producing bacteria caused a mass extinction. Oxygen was toxic to the planet's existing life, and its reaction with methane triggered a "Snowball Earth" ice age that lasted 300 million years.
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Billionaire Ambani’s Son Wants To Save Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ From Extinction In Colombia
Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar brought hippopotamuses to his estate in Colombia as part of a private zoo. When he died, they roamed wild.…
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'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid
In a new book, paleontologist Steve Brustatte tells the wild story of how birds evolved during the Jurassic and took to the skies, surviving the asteroid strike that killed their f…
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