Natural disasters, pandemics or manmade tragedies are something that most of us don’t really think about, however, Sunday’s Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink Documentary is going to reveal some interesting insights into why humans may be the ones to cause the next disaster. Man has already faced tremendous tragedies. The “German measles” epidemic, which caused an estimated 12,5 million … [Read more...]
Methane-producing microbes were perpetrators of mass extinction 252 mn yrs ago: Study
It was neither asteroid nor volcano, but methane-producing microbes that were the perpetrators of the largest of the Earth’s five known mass extinctions. A new MIT study has found that microbes that produced methane were likely responsible for the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. According to the researchers, they were one of the biggest events in the history of Earth as they … [Read more...]