A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago. Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano eruptions produced a "volcanic ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2021
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An ancient fish species with unusual scales and teeth from the Kuanti Formation in southern China may have evolved prior to the "Age of Fish", according to a study published March 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Archaeology
Mar 8, 2017
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A major global cooling event that occurred 4,200 years ago may have led to the evolution of new rice varieties and the spread of rice into both northern and southern Asia, an international team of researchers has found.
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2020
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(Phys.org) —Scientists are now considering the possibility that the exodus of modern man from Africa may have been earlier than 60,000 years ago as traditionally thought. Christopher Bae, a paleoanthropologist at UH Mānoa, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 19, 2014
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Biodiversity is one of Earth's most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, scientists only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is. Researchers at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ...
Ecology
Feb 21, 2019
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A bug over half a metre long discovered in southern China has been declared the world's longest insect, Chinese state media says.
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2016
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Millions of years ago, the Earth was so cold that most of its surface was covered in ice. But that hard freeze might have been slushier than once thought.
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2023
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Special darkened glasses were selling out in Japan on Friday as anticipation built ahead of a "ring" solar eclipse above one of the most densely populated parts of the planet.
Space Exploration
May 18, 2012
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A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of apes.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 14, 2022
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One of China's major cities has reached an environmental milestone: an almost entirely electric-powered taxi fleet.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 8, 2019
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