The Most Destructive Species Ever

This video is about the predecessors of cyanobacteria that caused the great oxidation event.

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Sources:
1. Cyanobacteria. Wikipedia (2023).
3. Great Oxidation Event. Wikipedia (2023).
4. Canfield, D. E. et al. Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth’s atmosphere. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110, 16736–16741 (2013).

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[admiralcat]

*Starts eating sunlight
*breathes out oxygen
*kills 99% of life on earth
*refuses to elaborate

[Vrtual_stuff]

Imagine 99% of Earth dying to someone’s dump 💀

[Predation_records]

prokaryote mass extinctions are often overlooked

[BadonKerme]

Now I know the reason why sanitizer had 99℅ and not 100℅. Respect to the 1℅ 💀

[sardorbek]

Today I can finally sleep more comfortably knowing this fact.

[jay-babbasi]

Man earth has the most terrifying backstory.
And it always ends in extinction

[titleatptitleinsertcoordin]

We could technically be the next"cyano bacteria" if we produce enough green house gases

[Nubaira_was_not_an_imposter]

Thank you for letting us know many interesting facts we didn't know ❤

[ThaddyDaddy]

Us dumping “toxic” material into the atmosphere: 😮

Bacteria ancestors: We’re proud 🥲

[Iateyourtoastt]

If someone is looking for the sound, it is "leanin"

[NationalCapitalRegionOfManila]

Cyanobacteria: *produces oxygen and fucking destorys Earth's Ecosystem and life*
Humans: 👀 CO²?

[KlaneKabol]

Could you do a video about Tardigrades?

[thatguywithdreams-]

Cyanobacterial ancestors really like: Primordial Taco Bell goes brrr 🥶😎🥶

[youtubemac]

sanitizer: atlast a worthy oponent, our battle will be legendary!

[bigbuba]

"They are not humans" genuinely took me by surprise

[humacunra]

Now the question is how do those single celled organisms lived without oxygen? What is their anatomy?

[bobadingo]

According to calculations 2050 is when it happens again as the atmospheres oxygen content will be depleted below sustainable levels.. .

[Simkets]

So there isa possibility of alien life out there not being able to breathe oxygen. So we can literally meet aliens who will have to wear "space suits" on our planet because our air will be toxic to them. This is so mindblowingly cool for some reason.

[Elvie-ko]

I was surprised...It's very rare to have single celled organism that depended on oxygen to live or even multi-celled extremophiles that live on extreme high/low temperatures and pressures just like tardigrades or volcano snails. Just imagine what we could find on other planets that orbits around a habitable zone of another star or gas giants, it's possible they could be non carbon lifeforms and does not depend on oxygen or resistant to dehydration.

[ThatOneDudeLeo.]

Man, that’s crazy to think that we started as simple cells