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In 1980, a physicist studying a thin clay layer found an iridium spike, and it wasn’t just trace metal: It became one of the biggest clues behind the dinosaurs’ extinctionIn a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on...
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...
Rocks Hidden Beneath the Pacific May Hold a Secret Record of Earth Slowly CoolingGeoscientists are using ancient chert rocks from the Pacific's Shatsky Rise to understand Earth's thermal history. Oxygen isotopes within t...
What Lies Beneath the Ocean Floor? 66 Million Years of Climate History ExplainedScientists are unlocking Earth's climate secrets buried deep beneath the ocean. Sediment cores, like ancient books, reveal millions of year...
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...
66-Million-Year-Old Climate Shift After Dinosaurs ExplainedSixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged into a deep fr...
How were dinosaurs’ last days on Earth before the asteroid hit? New evidence shows they were wiped out in their primeNew findings indicate dinosaurs were flourishing just before the asteroid strike. Fossils from New Mexico show diverse and healthy dinosaur...
Scientists discover river system that flowed 40 million years under ice in AntarcticaGeologists have discovered an old river that formerly flowed through Antarctica but is now buried below kilometers of ice.
Flowers are older than dinosaurs! The 1st blossom bloomed 38 million years agoFlowers can be preserved in striking detail. Dripping tree sap and resin fossilised the petals and pollen of a fossil flower in a Baltic co...
Dinosaurs extinction: Not just asteroid, this could be reason for dinosaurs' extinctionA team of international researchers have come out with a study that has given another reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs that majes...
- Scientists discover new 'Meghalayan age' in Earth's history
London, July 18 (IANS) Geologists have classified the last 4,200 years as being a distinct Earth age and are calling it a new chapter -- th...
- Scientists discover new 'Maghalayan age' in Earth's history
London, July 18 (IANS) Geologists have classified the last 4,200 years as being a distinct Earth age and are calling it a new chapter -- th...
- Tiny fossil shells unveil details about ancient Earth's climate
- Dino-killing asteroid darkened earth for two years: Study
New York, Aug 22 (IANS) An asteroid that wiped off dinosaurs 66 million years ago would have also plunged earth into darkness for nearly tw...
Asteroid impact, volcanoes together wiped out dinosaursAn asteroid impact 66 million years ago accelerated the eruptions of volcanoes in India for hundreds of thousands of years, dealing a one-t...
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid created India's Deccan Traps?
Massive dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago likely triggered most of the immense eruptions of lava in India, a...
‘Fears of man-made global warming exaggerated’Two of three scientists at a session on climate change and society at the Indian Science Congress on Tuesday felt fears of man-made global ...
Climate change is natural, not just man-made: ExpertsAs the world grapples with climate change and methods to tackle natural and man-induced disasters, the role of science should be to provide...
- New insights into evolution of Earth's atmosphere
Atmospheric oxygen was considerably lower in Earth's geological past than previously assumed, scientists have found.
'Global cooling as significant as global warming'The international study involving experts from the universities confirms the link between global cooling and a crash in the marine ecosyste...