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A vast ocean conveyor carries water from Greenland through the Atlantic for 350 years and shapes rainfall in Brazil; 15,400 years ago, it suddenly surged beyond today's strengthRecent sediment analyses indicate that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has undergone surprising fluctuations in intensity. ...- For over 100 years global plastic pollution became menace for environment, now forks created from sugar can be household alternativeBioplastics are biobased, meaning they are made completely or partially from a renewable resource, commonly corn or sugar cane; or they are...
- In 2005, scientists thawed 32,000-year-old organisms frozen since the Ice Age, and they started swimming almost immediately, challenging everything we knew about life's limitsNASA scientists made a groundbreaking discovery deep inside Alaskan permafrost. They defrosted 32,000-year-old bacteria frozen since the an...
- Scientists create artificial life from chemicals, and it eats, grows, and divides like the real thingScientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered "SpudCell," a lab-made entity from lifeless chemicals that mimics key life proces...
- 15-million-year-old Asura Hadda (demon bones) found in Odisha's Baripada during college field trip. Here's everything we knowAncient marine fossils, locally called 'Asura Hadda', have been found in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. These 15-million-year-old discoverie...
- In 2021, scientists found an unborn dinosaur frozen inside a museum egg for 70 million years, and the fossil revealed its final moments before hatch dayA remarkably preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo, nicknamed Baby Yingliang, has been discovered in China. Its curled posture, mir...
- In 1909, Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott Was Riding Through Yoho National Park: Stumbled on Strange Black Shale and Discovered the Burgess Shale, One of the Most Important Fossil Beds on EarthIn 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, revealing exceptionally preserved soft-bodied orga...
- In 2011, Miners in Alberta Discovered an Armored Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Retained Skin and Camouflage After 110 Million YearsMiners in Alberta unearthed a remarkably complete armored dinosaur, Borealopelta markmitchelli. This fossil, preserved with skin and armor,...
- Enormous octopuses dominated Earth's prehistoric seas over 100 million years agoAncient oceans were once ruled by enormous octopus relatives. New research reveals these early creatures were massive, dominant hunters. Fo...
- How the ‘Cretaceous Kraken’ hunted 100 million years ago: Inside the deadly feeding style of the 62-foot giant octopusGiant octopus Cretaceous Kraken: Ancient giant octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis, with arms up to 19 meters, were apex predators in the Late Cretac...
- This Ancient Turtle Was Trapped in Stone for 32 Million Years, Until Someone Finally NoticedA remarkable fossil discovery in Alabama has unveiled a new ancient sea turtle species, Ueloca colemanorum. Found by the Coleman family, th...
- 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...
- 560-mn-year-old animal predator named after British naturalist David AttenboroughThe fossil was found in Charnwood Forest near Leicester in central England, where Attenborough used to go fossil hunting.
- How carbon leak may have led to human civilisationNew York, July 31 (IANS) An increase in the activity of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Southern Ocean could explain the mysterious growth of h...
- Tiny fossil shells unveil details about ancient Earth's climate
- World's oldest eye discovered in 530 mn-year-old fossilLondon, Dec 8 (IANS) Researchers have unearthed what they believe to be the "oldest eye" in a 530-million-year-old fossil of an extinct sea...
- Climate change may be worse than believed: StudyThe current period of climate change may be unparalleled over the last 100 million years, warn scientists who discovered a flaw in the way ...
- World's oldest fossil sea turtle discoveredScientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilised sea turtle, which is almost completely preserved and dates back to about 120 milli...
- 425-million-year old tiny shrimp-like creature discoveredWell preserved remains of a tiny animal trapped for 425 million years in rocks in the UK have been discovered, with limbs, eyes, gills and ...
- Ancient egg fossils of Ostrich-like-bird recovered from Himachal PradeshGeologists have recovered about 10 million year old fossils of an Ostrich-like bird's egg shell suggesting that valleys of Himachal Pradesh...
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