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That time oxygen almost killed everything

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What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you’d never recognize, too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody.

Why was the Oxygen Catastrophe considered one of the biggest extinction events in history?

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