Ocean of acid blamed for Earth’s ‘great dying’

Posted by on Apr 13, 2015 @ 9:34 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: April 13, 2015

Death by acid was the fate of the sea monsters that perished in Earth’s biggest mass extinction, some 251 million years ago, a new study finds. Nearly every form of ocean life disappeared during this “Great Dying” at the end of the Permian period, when more than 90 percent of all marine species vanished, from the scorpionlike predators called...

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