Oh, the ignominy of it all. 90% of all species on Earth wiped out by a bunch of farting microbes!
________________________________ From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Microbes exterminate life on Earth! Date: March 31, 2014 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth's history. Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out -- by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions. It turns out that Methanosarcina had acquired a particularly fast means of making methane, and the team's detailed mapping of the organism's history now shows that this transfer happened at about the time of the end-Permian extinction. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140331153608.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29&utm_content=FaceBook
