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 U of T study has discovered the oldest known cavities ever found in a mammal, the likely result of a diet that included eating fruit.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 9, 2021
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The holly genus, Ilex L., in the monogeneric Aquifoliaceae, is the largest woody dioecious genus (more than 664 species). It has a very uniform reproductive biology and is instantly recognizable in flower or fruit, although ...
Archaeology
Mar 6, 2020
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The Earth's Cenozoic Era began 66 million years ago with a bang—and with the last mass extinction event on Earth until now. The meteorite impact that marked the end of the Cretaceous Period and the beginning of the Cenozoic ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2020
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Throughout the past 500 million years, our planet has experienced a total of five mass extinctions. One of these—the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event—led to the demise of roughly 90% of Earth's species.
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2023
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New research led by Simon Fraser University paleobotanist Rolf Mathewes provides clues about what plants existed in the Burnaby Mountain area (British Columbia, Canada) 40 million years ago during the late Eocene, when the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2023
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The Earth's climate is changing, and it's changed before. The world's oceans are warming, and they've warmed before.
Environment
Sep 25, 2018
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Although amber looks like a somewhat unusual inorganic mineral, it is actually derived from an organic source—tree resins. Millions of years ago, when this aromatic and sticky substance was slowly oozing from coniferous ...
Evolution
Feb 19, 2021
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The moonseed family (Menispermaceae) consists mainly of vines, rare shrubs or trees with unisexual flowers, and drupaceous fruits. Up to now, six species and three unidentified species in morphogenus Palaeosinomenium have ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2022
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St Petersburg University scientists found an ant of the genus Manica in a piece of amber in collection of the Kaliningrad Amber Museum. Such ants had previously been found only in the mountains of Europe, the Caucasus, North ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 2, 2023
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