About 600 million years ago, the planet was covered in ice. A huge glaciation turned our world into what experts plastically refer to as snowball Earth. Now, investigators at the University of Washington are going out of their way to determine how life managed to survive during those tough times.
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13 October 2011
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Experts know that Antarctica began to be engulfed by ices some 35 million year ago, but thus far they had no idea how the continent evolved afterwards. In a new study, a team of experts highlights how vegetation was eventually removed from the South Pole. Measurements conducted on fossilized pollen grains collected f... |
28 June 2011
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Scientists have reconstructed the Earth's climate belt of the late Ordovician Period, 460-445 million years ago. The research was carried out by an international team led by Dr. Thijs Vandenbroucke, at the University of Lille 1 (France) and included Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz of the Geology Department of ... |
10 August 2010
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For many years, a part of the international scientific community has been arguing that, at one point in time, the extent of sea-based ice caps must have reached all the way to the Equator. As more studies on this were conducted, they even managed to establish a time line of sorts, but failed to pinpoint the exact dat... |
5 March 2010
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In a world of giants, wolves had to be larger. And they were. Alaskan gray wolves from the last Ice Age were built to eat on mammoths, not deer. They had shorter snouts, stronger jaws and more massive canine teeth than any modern wolf. But this type of wolf vanished along with the megafauna formed by mastodons, saber... |
22 June 2007
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Currently, the Earth is experiencing a rapid warming which scientists blame on the huge amounts of greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide) resulted from the human activity. But the simultaneous current warming on Earth and Mars has made Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observator... |
2 March 2007
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