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Ancient Oceans Began Losing Oxygen Millions of Years before End-Triassic Mass Extinction


Chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate that marine environments were deteriorating long before the catastrophe that wiped out vast numbers of species at the end of the Triassic period, around 201 million years ago.

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