An article published in the journal “Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology” describes a study that offers new evidence supporting the theory that the first animals caused the first major mass extinction that took place on Earth. According to a group of researchers led by Simon Darroch of Vanderbilt University, the animals species that emerged in the so-called Cambrian explosion altered their environment in such a way that they caused that extinction.