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Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover Unusual New Hero in Evolution


Prehistoric worms' burrowing activities on ocean floors released oxygen, fostering the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, according a new study. One of Earth’s most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new speci

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