SciShow: That Time the Earth Almost Suffocated

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Content of the Lesson: Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/scishow The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name! Scientists may have figured out what caused a potential mass extinction over half a billion years ago and separately discovered a live animal that we had only known about through fossils! Hosted by: Hank Green This video was sponsored by Wren. SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow #SciShow #science #education ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/970480 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207475119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2006087117 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer-Mcelwain/publication/5924846_Mass_extinction_events_and_the_plant_fossil_record/links/5b10f0664585150a0a5e26fe/Mass-extinction-events-and-the-plant-fossil-record.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016953471830140X https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1003 https://www.science.org/content/article/are-we-middle-sixth-mass-extinction https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/95139/element/7/0/Typhlogobius%20californiensis/ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/970516 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_Museum_of_Natural_History_Triceratops.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_Intensity.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ediacaran_sea.png https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/964210 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/murmansk-oblast-and-kola-peninsula-gray-royalty-free-illustration/1403681248?phrase=white%20sea&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/southern-africa-political-map-royalty-free-illustration/831379044?phrase=namibia%20map&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DickinsoniaCostata.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pteridinium_simplex_Namibia.JPG https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/dickinsonia-extinct-creatures-of-the-ediacaran-era-royalty-free-image/1134854508?phrase=ediacaran&adppopup=true https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/649860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ausia_fenestra.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bufo_periglenes2.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/aerial-over-palm-tree-lined-road-along-the-pacific-ocean-stock-footage/1329770189?phrase=santa%20barbara%20beach&adppopup=true https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/95139/element/2/12// https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Podaac_blob_colordata_sst2015.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/canoe-is-moving-over-a-small-river-in-the-amazon-stock-footage/1366029891?phrase=amazon%20rainforest https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/drone-aerial-view-of-deforestation-in-amazon-rainforest-stock-footage/1336901685?phrase=amazon%20rainforest


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