Yucatan climate past informs the global climate present
New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago.
New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago.
Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 2021
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, in the middle of what would eventually become Canada's Yukon Territory, an ocean swirled with armored trilobites, clam-like brachiopods and soft, squishy creatures akin to slugs and squid.
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2021
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Footprints from at least six species of dinosaur—the very last dinosaurs to walk on UK soil 110 million years ago—have been found in Kent, a new report has announced.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 18, 2021
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Balanced rocks, poised in position for 24,000 years, have been used to assess the current seismic integrity of the Clyde Dam in a University of Otago-led study.
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2021
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Below the verdant surface and organic rich soil, life extends kilometers into Earth's deep rocky crust. The continental deep subsurface is likely one of the largest reservoirs of bacteria and archaea on Earth, many forming ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 9, 2021
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Stone forests—pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and many other locations worldwide—are as majestic as they are mysterious, created by uncertain forces that give them ...
General Physics
Sep 7, 2020
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A collaboration of researchers based in Kumamoto University, Japan have discovered microdiamonds in the Nishisonogi metamorphic rock formation in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Microdiamonds in metamorphic rocks are important ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2020
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If you could dive down to the ocean floor nearly 540 million years ago just past the point where waves begin to break, you would find an explosion of life—scores of worm-like animals and other sea creatures tunneling complex ...
Archaeology
Aug 14, 2020
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New research led by the University of St Andrews helps answer one of the most asked questions in geoscience, when did Earth start to become habitable to complex life?
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2020
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A small international team of researchers has found that two prehistoric anchovy-like fish had fangs and a saber tooth. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes their study of ...