Well, you know what they say: "shit happens!"
On 04/01/2014 04:46 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
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
