A University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) expert was recently part of a team that uncovered new evidence supporting the idea that a space impact was responsible for the disappearance of North American megafauna.
This occurred during a time called the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), which began roughly 12,900... |
13 June 2012
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In a paper published in the April 23 online issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists propose that supposedly-alien geological features called black mats are, in fact, of terrestrial origin.
Before this study, these structures were regarded as evidence of prehi... |
24 April 2012
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The start of the Younger Dryas may have coincided with a large comet breaking up in our planet's atmosphere. The event, believed to have taken place some 13,000 years ago, was first proposed years ago, but thus far insufficient data were available to support the idea.
The Younger Dryas, informally known as the... |
6 March 2012
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A team of investigators may have just found an explanation for why Antarctica was warming up while the rest of the world was locked in the final pulsations of the last Ice Age. The period, known as the Younger Dryas, was a period of abrupt cooling, that took place as the last glacial period was coming at an end. Temp... |
9 September 2010
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For many years, experts looking at the possible effects that the last Ice Age may have had on indigenous populations in North America said that the events triggered major repercussions. The experts believed that the Younger Dryas period specifically was the most harmful. In geological terms, this is a period of a few... |
12 April 2010
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Geologists are very familiar with the Younger Dryas period, which occurred some 13,000 ears ago. It's not like something out of this world happened at this point, but geological records would seem to indicate that, just as the planet was exiting the last ice age, a new cold spell lasting several millennia struck... |
1 April 2010
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