Big extinctions don’t just wipe out a lot of species. They also send ecological cycles reeling for millions of years, a new study suggests.
Following massive die-offs, the natural processes that keep carbon flowing through marine ecosystems — from tiny photosynthesizers to big fish and between the bottom and the top of the ocean — get broken.
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