PBS Eons: That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen

PBS Eons has a new episode on Youtube.  This one is about an extinction event during the Cretaceous Period and what it did to the oceans.

This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.

 

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