TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
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Submitted May 16, 2019 at 09:52PM by A-Plunger http://bit.ly/2WWMVcU
Submitted May 16, 2019 at 09:52PM by A-Plunger http://bit.ly/2WWMVcU
TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
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