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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 15+ 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…...
that erupted near Mayotte in 2018 brought something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1112+ words) A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to...contains signs of mantle material formed within the planet’s first 100 million years, when much of Earth...In other words, the deep…...
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, 21+ 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…...
Rare lava lake glows inside a volcano near Antarctica
6+ day, 21+ 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, 22+ 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…...
Asteroid dust may explain what really killed the dinosaurs
2+ week, 17+ 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…...
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....Of what she measured, 158 samples came out clean enough to read as land plants, about 96% of the set....molecules became far more common than short ones, which is what…...
Why do astronauts get constipated in space? Scientists have a new clue
3+ week, 6+ day ago (971+ words) within weeks after the astronauts arrive in space, and this change continues until they are back on Earth...Protein fermentation also occurs on Earth and can increase when intestinal transit slows, giving microbes...