What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?

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Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
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Art by Khail Kupsky
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References:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscienti...
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/eart...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11540...
https://theconversation.com/earths-bo...
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/8/3105
https://home.cern/science/experiments...
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...

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