Is This How The Dinosaurs Died?

The Bigger Picture · The Daily Digest · 25 Oct 2019 · 18 mins listen

Scientists have strong evidence that the last mass extinction, which wiped out almost all animal and plant species on the planet, including non-avian dinosaurs, was caused by a sharp rise in ocean acidity. But it gets worse...apparently ocean acidification is happening again today. Are we doomed for extinction?

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The Bigger Picture, The Daily Digest, Michael Henehan, dinosaurs, mass extinction, extinction, meteor, ocean acidity, ocean acidification, non-avian dinosaurs, climate crisis, climate change, geochemistry, palaeoclimatology, fossils

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