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90 million years ago, Antarctica had a temperate forest just 900 kilometers from the South Pole despite months of darkness. 90 million years later, scientists found its roots, pollen and spores preserved in seafloor sediment beneath today's frozen continentAncient West Antarctica hosted a temperate rainforest approximately ninety million years ago. Fossil roots and pollen indicate dense vegeta...- An 80-million-year-old snake fossil from Brazil is helping solve the mystery of how lizards lost their limbs and began to slitherA newly discovered 80-million-year-old snake fossil from Brazil is reshaping evolutionary debates. This exceptionally preserved specimen, T...
- In 2015, a British swimmer entered Antarctica’s freezing sea wearing only swimming trunks; his campaign helped protect 1.57 million square kilometersBritish swimmer Lewis Pugh undertook daring Antarctic swims to advocate for ocean protection. His "Speedo diplomacy" approach helped secure...
- NASA's NISAR satellite Antarctica image captures a giant bird-like shape hidden in East Antarctica's ice; here's what the colourful radar view meansThe joint India-US NISAR satellite has released radar data that captured a striking image of East Antarctica's frozen landscape. The satell...
- Tapeworms aren't just harmful to your brain. These tiny parasites can turn ordinary worker ants into long-living, queen-like survivors and make them live longer, study findsA tapeworm infection dramatically alters worker ants, making them live much longer. These infected ants exhibit physiological changes that ...
- 56 million dead, one frozen secret: Antarctica outed the deadliest secret in human historyAntarctic ice cores climate change: Scientists found ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. This ice holds records of Earth's atmosphere for...
- Scientists thought this ancient ice sheet was stable until buried fossils revealed a lost forest beneath AntarcticaScientists discovered fossils revealing Antarctica was once a swampy temperate rainforest. This ancient forest existed around 90 million ye...
- A 90-Million-Year-Old Forest Hidden Under Antarctica Is Rewriting What We Thought We Knew About EarthScientists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossilized forest in Antarctica, dating back nearly 90 million years. This discovery revea...
- A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...
- Ancient Ecosystem Discovered Under Antarctic Ice After 34 Million Years Sparks Global Debate Over Drilling RisksScientists may have found a 34-million-year-old ecosystem sealed under Antarctica's ice, dating back to a warmer era. Evidence suggests mic...
- Isro set for major milestone in earth observation with NISAR, an India-Nasa joint missionISRO is preparing to launch the NISAR satellite, a joint Earth observation mission with NASA, on July 30. The satellite, equipped with dual...
- Is Antarctica's icy exterior hiding a lush, prehistoric paradise? Scientists uncover shocking evidence!Scientists have uncovered an ancient landscape beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing a past environment with rivers and forests that existed ...
- ZIKA Virus: Karnataka reports its first case in five-year-old girl, alert onFive-year-old girl from the Kolar district in Karnataka has tested positive for the ZIKA virus. WHO has declared Zika-related microcephaly ...
- 2021 travel diaries: ZestMoney boss, Grant Thornton Bharat CEO looking forward to explore Andamans, JapanIndia Inc bosses have been missing travelling.
- Explore the wild with a purpose: Visit sanctuaries that support conservation efforts, reforestationThere are many ways in which tourists visiting Antarctica can adopt an environmental-friendly attitude.
- Nasa set to launch space laser to track Earth's melting ice
- NASA launching laser satellite to study Earth's changing iceWashington, Aug 24 (IANS) NASA is launching a laser-armed satellite next month that will measure -- in unprecedented detail -- changes in t...
- Dive into the wild: Nature’s offerings across the worldAdventure meets wildlife in this issue of ET-Travel. Here’s where to go to visit the best of nature’s offerings across the world.
- Just messing aroundThere's actually no getting away from the fact that all existence — inanimate or alive —is a matter of continuous and inextricably linked i...
- 'Snout' of Dakshin Gangotri glacier recedingThe 'snout' of the Dakshin Gangotri glacier is receding at an average rate of .70 metres per annum, according to a study conducted by India...
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