(Phys.org) —It's has been know that massive increases in emission of CO2 from volcanoes, associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in the end-Triassic Period, set off a shift in state of the climate which caused ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2013
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Coryphodontids, are a group of extinct large herbivorous mammals widespread in Eurasia and North America from late Paleocene to middle Eocene, placed in the archaic, extinct order Pantodonta, and are among the most useful ...
Archaeology
Aug 9, 2012
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Paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently collected some early Paleogene (Upper Paleocene through Middle Eocene) mesonychid specimens from the ...
Archaeology
Aug 8, 2012
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Plunge in CO2 put the freeze on AntarcticaAtmospheric carbon dioxide levels plunged by 40% before and during the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet 34 million years ago, according to a new study. The finding helps solve ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2011
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Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The temperature differences ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The temperature ...
Earth Sciences
May 26, 2011
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A new study of the High Arctic climate roughly 50 million years ago led by the University of Colorado at Boulder helps to explain how ancient alligators and giant tortoises were able to thrive on Ellesmere Island well above ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2010
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A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009
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