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Deja Vu Now, a team of MIT researchers may have found enough evidence to convict the guilty parties—but youll need a microscope to see the killers. The perpetrators, this new work suggests, were not asteroids, volcanoes, or raging coal fires, all of which have been implicated previously. Rather, they were a form of microbes—specifically, methane-producing archaea called Methanosarcina—that suddenly bloomed explosively in the oceans, spewing prodigious amounts of methane into the atmosphere and dramatically changing the climate and the chemistry of the oceans. phys.org/news/2014-03-methane-producing-microbes-responsible-largest-mass.html
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:28:06 +0000

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