How chemical clues from prehistoric microbes rewrote the story of one of Earth's biggest mass extinctions
- Written by Kliti Grice, John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Organic and Isotope Geochemistry, Curtin University
Microbial mats in Shark Bay, Western Australia, similar to those that lived around 200 million years ago.Yalimay Jimenez Duarte WA-OIGC, Curtin University, Author providedChemical clues left behind by humble microbes have rewritten the timeline of one of the biggest mass extinction events in Earth’s history.
The so-called “end-Triassic...





