What If All the Microbes Disappeared?

In a world without microbes, this channel wouldn't exist.
But there are other, more important things that would stop existing as well, and today we're going to explore just what could survive a world without our little micro friends, and for how long.

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SOURCES:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mass-extinctions
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/15/5462
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1700906
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/did-microbes-cause-the-worst-mass-extinction-ever/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171218154925.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0625-0
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180730120340.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426293/
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