The first mass extinction event was from a lack of oxygen, researchers find.
Scientists have speculated for years that the world is coming up on its sixth mass extinction, when a majority of the Earth’s creatures become extinct.
But a couple of Virginia Tech researchers are studying what happened in the first extinction in hopes of avoiding another.
A new study led by Scott Evans, a postdoctoral researcher, and co-author Shuhai Xiao, a paleobiologist, showed that 80% of animals and organisms that died off 550 million years ago did so because of a drop in the amount of oxygen in waterways.
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Some animals need more oxygen to survive, and the animals hit hardest were those that required more and were less mobile — they couldn’t get to areas with greater oxygen supplies.
Larger animals that could take deeper breaths were more likely to live.
“This suggests that the extinction event was environmentally controlled, as are all other mass extinctions in the geologic record,” Evans said.
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