Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying"

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Medical Daily about a new theory for what triggered the "Great Dying: " "Researchers believe that they may finally know why the event occurred, but the theory is not without controversy. There are several theories, including the possibility of a meteorite hitting the planet. Previously, most researchers believed that the Permian mass extinction was a result of a series of volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia. ... However, Daniel Rothman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is floating around a different theory. As he presented in a meeting for the American Geophysical Union, he believes that the mass extinction could have been caused by something much smaller. His theory is that the extinction was caused by a single strain of bacteria."

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I Understand Tragedy of the Commons

[Anonymous Coward]

Honestly, this is interesting but the article title of, "Single microbe may have triggered the 'Great Dying'" above makes me think of, "Single macrobe triggered the second 'Great Dying' ending all mammalian life on planet Earth."

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[q.kontinuum]

Current score: (Score:2, Informative)

Come on, how is this informative?!? Either Troll or Funny, I don't care, but this smells of a moderator trolling or trying to be funny!