The result: Most fans outside of Munich and southwest London will be rooting against their country's representatives Saturday, dousing the usual explosion of patriotic fervor with a bucket of ice-cold apathy.

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"An increase in land plant abundance may have occurred at the time just before the period known as the Cambrian Explosion, when the next Snowball Earth period failed to occur because temperatures did not get cold enough, " he added.

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