December 12, 2003
Feed the Tree

Fark, in a remarkable departure from Boobies and Weirdness, linked up this story about one scientist's theories behind the Devonian mass extinction event. This event was before the better-known Permian and Cretaceous events, but still managed to off about 70% of the earth's species at the time. The theory is that land plants, which evolved in the Devonian, created unique land/sea conditions that wrecked the finely balanced ecological conditions of the oceans of that period. In other words, the trees did it.

Posted by scott at December 12, 2003 08:37 AM

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