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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 19+ 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, 5+ day ago (1112+ words) A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to...And it’s an ancient one....In other words, the deep Earth may still be holding onto pieces of its earliest history.......
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1023+ words) Farther out, one of those layers held a small armored fish fossil, and there the rock was never disturbed...lake was drying up in the last stretch of the Permian, just before the largest mass extinction in Earth...A 2008 paper…...
Deep Atlantic life depends on oxygen from one surprising place
3+ week, 5+ day ago (779+ words) Miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, in total darkness, there’s an entire world of creatures...A new study just tracked it back to one specific stretch of ocean wedged between Greenland and Newfoundland...The work comes from Una…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
6+ day, 1+ 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 ground level, their tilted slabs dominate the view.......
Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (880+ words) The research was conducted by Amos Frumkin from the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University...One is the last interglacial period, roughly 129,000 to 116,000 years ago....Clay-rich terra rossa soil poured down from the hills and piled up in…...
Rare lava lake glows inside a volcano near Antarctica
1+ week, 1+ 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
4+ day, 2+ 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…...
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....ones....ground that trees and shrubs used to cover....By 15 million years ago, every batch of samples came out clearly different from the older ones....From 16.9 to 14.7 million years…...