How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis

TED-Ed · 2.8M views · 2016 · 4:14

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Explains how a single-celled organism triggered Earth's first mass extinction and enabled complex life.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including mentalfloss.com, libretexts.org, laughingsquid.com.