It happened 550 million years ago and ended with more than 80% of the planet’s species. Researchers don’t know what could have caused the depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere.
The image shows several imprints of the Ediacara Dickinsonia fossil, one of the first mobile animals, found in South AustraliaScott Evans
A team of researchers from the Virginia Tech School of Sciences and the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of California has managed to find out the cause of the first great extinction of animals known, the Ediacaran, 550 million years ago, …
