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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (956+ words) A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually...Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from water onto land....Insects eventually became the most species-rich animal group on the planet and…...
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 3+ day ago (703+ words) Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's...“The record may reflect the delivery of iron from land, telling us more about changes of Earth’s surface..., weathering processes, and land plants.”...For…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1023+ words) lake was drying up in the last stretch of the Permian, just before the largest mass extinction in Earth...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (654+ words) California’s Vasquez Rocks have stood in for alien worlds for decades....perspective – hundreds of miles above Earth....The image was captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 9 satellite....From orbit, the individual rock formations are far less…...
Africa’s savanna existed millions of years earlier than expected
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1038+ words) But the ground was already open long before those grasses arrived....Anna Schartman ran the analysis as a PhD student in Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa...Of what she measured, 158 samples came out clean enough to read…...
Rare lava lake glows inside a volcano near Antarctica
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (701+ words) Sea ice crowds the dark water, snow covers the land, and the remote island sits hundreds of miles from...NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured the image with its Operational Land Imager (OLI)....As one plate sinks into Earth’s interior, melting…...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (697+ words) Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West...Northern Africa is the largest source of atmospheric dust on Earth....As rain-cooled air plunges toward the ground and spreads outward, the…...
Deep Atlantic life depends on oxygen from one surprising place
3+ week, 4+ day ago (779+ words) Miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, in total darkness, there’s an entire world of creatures...The work comes from Una Miller, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University...
Asteroid dust may explain what really killed the dinosaurs
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (998+ words) Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth and helped wipe out the non-avian dinosaurs...In the team’s computer simulation, it was about 8 miles across and struck Earth at roughly 45,000 miles...The beads flew out on arcs high above…...