Did Rising Oxygen Levels Fuel Mammal Evolution?
National Geographic, Sept. 30, 2005,
[news.nationalgeographic.com]

Oxygen helped mammals grow, study finds
USA Today, Sept. 29, 2005, [www.usatoday.com]

Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say
Innovations-Report, Germany, Sept. 30, 2005
[www.innovations-report.com]

The paper discussed in the above articles is:

Falkowski, P. G., Katz, M. E., Milligan, A. J.,
Fennel, K., and others, 2005, The Rise of Oxygen
over the Past 205 Million Years and the Evolution
of Large Placental Mammals. Science. vol. 309,
no. 5744, 2202-2204.

Paul H.


"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)