Bacteria froze the Earth, researchers say
5th Sep 2005, 15:10 GMT
A Caltech team argues that 2.3 billion years ago, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, gained the ability to break down water, which in turn released a flood of oxygen into the atmosphere. That oxygen reacted with the atmospheric methane, which in...
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