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Arguably cyanobacteria beat us to the punch a bit less than 2.5 billion years ago in the Great Oxidation Event, when they killed off much/most of the other life
by larkost 3y ago
Arguably cyanobacteria beat us to the punch a bit less than 2.5 billion years ago in the Great Oxidation Event, when they killed off much/most of the other life by producing a lot of oxygen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- denton-scratch 3y agoThe lifeforms they killed off were not very diverse, and not very interesting - mostly bacteria.