The Gulf Stream kept going during the last Ice Age
The warm Atlantic water continued to flow into the icy Nordic seas during the coldest periods of the last Ice Age.
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2014
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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
What a 66-million-year-old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs
As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a team of researchers from McGill University and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2014
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Fossilised swimming hippos could help us understand dinosaur footprints
Fossil swim tracks in Kenya left by hippopotami may help scientists understand how the largest dinosaurs moved in water.
Archaeology
May 30, 2014
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Causes, consequences of global climate warming that took place 56 million years ago studied
The growing and justified concern about the current global warming process has kindled the interest of the scientific community in geological records as an archive of crucial information to understand the physical and ecological ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2014
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Groundbreaking deepwater fossil study reveals reef's past and future
(Phys.org) —Many people look back at their time on the Great Barrier Reef by viewing holiday snaps. Scientists have taken an even longer look back at the Great Barrier Reef via another image caught in time - deepwater fossils ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2013
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Biggest extinction in history caused by climate-changing meteor
(Phys.org) —It's well known that the dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago when a meteor hit what is now southern Mexico but evidence is accumulating that the biggest extinction of all, 252.3m years ago, at the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2013
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Scientists establish a mammalian biostratigraphy in the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet
The Pliocene (5.3–2.6 Million years ago) of Tibet witnessed the drying of the northern Tibetan Plateau and the approach to the Pleistocene Ice Age within the background of intensifying Indian and East Asian monsoons. Yet ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2013
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Dinosaur-era climate change study suggests reasons for turtle disappearance
Dramatic climate change was previously proposed to be responsible for the disappearance of turtles 71-million-years ago, because they were considered to be "climate-sensitive" animals. Results of this research, however, show ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2013
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