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Re:Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River by matthewmacleod on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:28AM (#17986687)
Around 2.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria caused the Oxygen Catastrophe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event) and is generally regarded to have killed off nearly all life, as well as triggering the Huronian glaciation lasting some 300 million years.

We are not unique in our ability to overwhelm ecosystems. It's true that as intelligent life we should be far, far more aware of our actions.

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Re:Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River by tomxor on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:08AM (#17987265)
> We are not unique in our ability to overwhelm ecosystems.

We are not unique in that respect, but we are unique magnitude and consistency, we aren't an "event" like others, we are an adaptive species.

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Re:Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River by fiter on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:18PM (#17989030)
The cyanobacteria literally terraformed thr planet so that it's habitable animal life. If only we could do the same!
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