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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...- What a Fisherman’s Discovery in Alabama Is Teaching Scientists About Ancient SeasA routine fishing trip in Alabama led to the discovery of Ueloca colemanorum, a remarkably complete fossil of a previously unknown leatherb...
- The Arctic Once Had Palm Trees: What the Fossils RevealFossil evidence from the High Arctic reveals that palm trees and subtropical plants once thrived in the polar region. This occurred during ...
- 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...
- Did climate change occur 44 million years ago that changed Earth? What happened to river system that ran below Antarctica?Scientists, including Johann Klages, discovered an ancient 1,000-mile river system beneath Antarctica from 40 million years ago. This findi...
- 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.
- Meet Vasuki Indicus: Ancient snake in India that may have weighed a ton and measured longer than a school busVasuki, the ancient big snake from India, was a slow-moving ambush predator that subdued prey through constriction. It lived 47 million yea...
- Antarctica was once as warm as Florida, CaliforniaParts of Antarctica, one of the coldest places on Earth, were as warm as today's California coast about 40 million years ago with temperatu...
- Insect discovery sheds light on climate changeThe researchers have named the new family the Eorpidae, after the Eocene Epoch, the age when these insects lived some 50 million years ago.
- Soon, palm trees to dot AntarcticaPalm trees could grow in the Antarctic if climate change continues unabated, new research has shown - just as they did 55 million years ago.
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