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 most recent investigations conducted with the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft suggest that the family of asteroids which was widely believed to have been responsible for the extinction event that killed off all the dinosaurs is in fact innocent of all charges.
Dinosaurs were wiped f... |
20 September 2011
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In one of the first such instances ever, scientists are now conducting studies into determining how animal life and vegetation recovers on a small island, after being subjected to catastrophic volcanic eruption.At first, it appeared as if the event had wiped out all living things on the island, but now researchers sa... |
26 August 2010
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According to a new set of pieces of evidence, it may be that the asteroid that is thought to have hit our planet more than 65 million years ago, extinguishing most dinosaur species, did not cause widespread fires, as first thought. The data seems to suggest that the impact simply caused our planet's surface to b... |
8 December 2009
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Establishing what killed the dinosaurs is not an easy thing to do, and many ideas and proposals exist to explain why, some 65 million years ago, more than half of the planet's species, dinosaurs included, vanished from the face of it. A large portion of the scientific community believes that a comet impact, at t... |
19 October 2009
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Despite being virtually everywhere, butterflies are some of the least understood creatures on the face of the planet, as far as their evolution goes. They come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and species, and completely lack fossil evidence on which scientists could build theories. Thanks to a new study, experts n... |
6 October 2009
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Growing evidence that has been accumulated over the past few years seems to sink the asteroid explanation for the disappearance of the dinosaurs more and more underground. Indeed, according to the latest data, it would appear that either a multitude of factors, including a meteorite impact, or a single event – ... |
5 May 2009
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A new research seems to indicate that dinosaurs didn't take over their habitat right after they first appeared, but instead underwent millions of years of constant change, until they became perfectly adapted to the environment. Professors at the University of Bristol say that dinosaur evolution was a very slow p... |
1 October 2008
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