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Meet the Giant Millipede That Once Crawled the Earth
Imagine 8-foot-long millipedes scooting across the ground in search of rotting plants. While that thought may make your skin crawl, the creatures you have conjured did exist. That is the arthropleura, ...
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Our Wandering Continents
THE author is to be congratulated upon a brave project, the writing of a geological history of the earth in terms of ... considered separately. The Carboniferous glaciations and Glossopteris ...
The Conversation29d
How ancient flying reptiles ruled the skies – new research
The first flying animals were insects similar to dragonflies, which flapped their wings over swampy forests of the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago). Around 100 million years later ...
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CO2 has regulated Earth’s climate for millions of years
These shells, which are preserved across geological time, store chemical fingerprints of Earth’s past climate. By analyzing these fingerprints, the researchers determined how atmospheric CO 2 ...
Scientific American15d
The Origin of Coal Oil
That there stould be liuch vast accumulations of mineral oil within the bowels of the earth, stored ap for ... bitumen and coal are not confined to the carboniferous, but are found in all the ...
Frontiers5d
Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb Dating and Significance From Weathered Residual Kaolin Deposits on the Northern Margin of the Qinzhou-Hangzhou Suture Zone, China
In the region, Upper Proterozoic and Quaternary strata are distributed over a large area (Figure 2), and the Carboniferous–Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Systems are sporadically exposed. The ...
CNN11d
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A small space rock ...
Forbes29d
Once-A-Decade Event As 2.6 Miles-Wide Asteroid Hurtles Past Earth — How To See It
can be seen using binoculars from the Northern Hemisphere. (Artwork shows an asteroid and Earth). A near-Earth asteroid with about the same diameter as The National Mall in Washington D.C. had a ...
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Alien: Earth – Everything we know about the Alien TV show
Alien: Earth is coming up this summer, and we know it's going to be a scary ride. The first-ever TV show in the sci-fi franchise is set to channel the horror vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien as the ...
Science Daily5d
Earth Science News
Geoscientists conducted ... Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters Jan. 30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced ...
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Earth and environmental sciences articles from across Nature Portfolio
Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...