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Florida State University-National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: Oxygen Depletion in Ancient Oceans Caused Major Mass Extinction
August 31, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Aug. 31 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory issued the following news release:

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- New study resolves a longstanding paleoclimate mystery.

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Late in the prehistoric Silurian Period, around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event wiped 23 percent of all marine animals from the face of the planet.

For years, scientists struggled to . . .

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