Killer algae a key player in mass extinctions

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 04:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations...

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