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How bottom-dwelling creatures revealed the cycle of our oceans

Discover the hundred-year scientific journey of how unlikely marine organisms helped prove that ocean basins undergo a massive reincarnation process every few hundred million years.

This video explores the century-long story of how certain bottom-dwelling marine critters provided the evidence needed to understand tectonic cycles. By studying these fossils, scientists uncovered the mechanism behind how ocean basins are essentially reborn every few hundred million years.

Source: There's An Invisible Ocean Between These Fossils

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