Mass Extinction Event 2 Billion Years Ago Killed 99% of Life on Earth, Study Finds

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By Madison DapcevichSep 4, 2019, 9:10 am147 pts
Some two billion years ago, a significant decline of once-abundant oxygen killed as much as 99 percent of all life on Earth in a mass extinction event larger than the one responsible for the dinosaur die-off. None Publishing their work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers…

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