Algae: a key player in mass extinctions?

And crocodiles, who live in water like 99 % of their lives, were not effected by these algea?? Yeah...

Sounds like a classic case of confusing causes and effects. Br Cornelius

Sounds like a classic case of confusing causes and effects. Br Cornelius Maybe not, in related news: Algae foam killing thousands of sea birds LONG BEACH, Wash., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Foam from an unusual algae bloom has killed thousands of birds along the Oregon and Washington coasts in recent weeks, marine biologists said. Akashiwo sanguinea, a single-cell algae or phytoplankton, strips the birds of their natural waterproofing, said Julia Parrish, a marine biologist and professor at Washington State University Read more ...

in related news: Brain-shrinking algae send sea lions off course ALGAL red tides can have some odd effects on marine creatures - causing sea lions to stray into pools and parking lots, for instance. Now high-tech medical equipment is offering a peek inside the animals' skulls to discover what causes such bizarre behaviour. Eric Montie of the University of South Florida in St Petersburg studied wild sea lions, including some that showed symptoms of poisoning by domoic acid - the neurotoxin secreted by the algae. He placed anaesthetised sea lions in an MRI scanner to image their brains, and foun... [More]