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What Kept Earth Boiling After The Great Dying? Scientists Reveal Mystery
The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.
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Southwest Pacific Hit By Unprecedented Marine Heat Waves In 2024: United Nations
Unprecedented heat waves in the Southwest Pacific affected more than 10% of the global ocean surface in 2024, damaging coral reefs and putting the region's last remaining tropical glacier at risk of extinction, the UN's weather body said on Thursday.
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Ocean Plankton Survived Ice Age But May Not Cope With Climate Change Now
In our new research, published today in Nature, we explored the ability of tiny marine organisms called plankton to adapt to global warming.
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Future Supercontinent Pangea Ultima Could Trigger Mass Extinction, Reveals New Study
A University of Bristol study warns that Earth’s future supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, may make the planet uninhabitable for humans and mammals. Due to a combination of rising CO₂ levels, increased solar radiation, and vast land area far from oceanic cooling, the supercontinent could experience widespread extreme temperatures. Though millions o...
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Mega Meteorite, 4 Times The Size Of Mount Everest, May Have Sparked Life On Earth: Study
This immense rock slammed into Earth, boiling the oceans and unleashing a record-breaking tsunami.
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Extinct Walrus-like Mammal Discovered in Atlantics, Provides New Insights into Marine Evolution
Recent findings have unveiled Ontocetus posti, an extinct walrus-like mammal that lived 2.2 million years ago. Led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville from the University of Tsukuba, this discovery, made from fossils found in Norwich, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium, provides fresh insights into the evolutionary history of walruses. Initially misidentified, the foss...
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Mysterious 'Golden Egg' Discovered At The Bottom Of Pacific Ocean Baffles Scientists
The team of explorers found the shiny golden orb when they were exploring an extinct volcano during the Seascape Alaska 5 expedition.
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Megalodon Sharks Could Eat Prey the Size of Modern Killer Whales, 3D Model Based on Specimen Suggests
A team of researchers have created a 3D model of a megalodon, one of the believed to be the largest shark that ever roamed the Earth's waters. For the modeling, a team of researchers in collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH) used the specimen of an individual megalodon which was discovered back in the 1860s. It was believed to have died ...
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Mystery Event Decimated 90 Per Cent of Shark Diversity 19 Million Years Ago, New Study Finds
An ocean evet some 19 million years ago nearly wiped out the entire shark population, a new study has found. What remains today is just a sliver of the diversity of the shark population that existed then.
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Toothless, Dwarf Dolphin, A Case Study In Evolution
Scientists unveiled today an extinct species of toothless, whiskered and objectively cute mini-dolphin that plied Earth's oceans some 30 million years ago.
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What The 'Sixth Extinction' Will Look Like In The Oceans: The Largest Species Die Off First
We mostly can't see it around us, and too few of us seem to care - but nonetheless, scientists are increasingly convinced that the world is barreling towards what has been called a "sixth mass extinction" event. Simply put, species are going extinct at a rate that far exceeds what you would expect to see naturally, as a result of a major perturbati...
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This Bizarre Sea Monster Shows How Strange Life Gets After An Apocalypse
A newly discovered marine reptile is giving scientists a glimpse into the wondrous feats of nature in the face of adversity. Sclerocormus parviceps lived about 247 million years ago - in the aftermath of the most devastating mass extinction we know of, often referred to as "The Great Dying." Some 96 percent of all species went extinct, and changes ...
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Acidic Oceans Implicated in Earth's Worst Mass Extinction
It is one of science's enduring mysteries: what caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history. And, no, it is not the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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What Kept Earth Boiling After The Great Dying? Scientists Reveal Mystery
The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.
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Southwest Pacific Hit By Unprecedented Marine Heat Waves In 2024: United Nations
Unprecedented heat waves in the Southwest Pacific affected more than 10% of the global ocean surface in 2024, damaging coral reefs and putting the region's last remaining tropical glacier at risk of extinction, the UN's weather body said on Thursday.
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Ocean Plankton Survived Ice Age But May Not Cope With Climate Change Now
In our new research, published today in Nature, we explored the ability of tiny marine organisms called plankton to adapt to global warming.
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Future Supercontinent Pangea Ultima Could Trigger Mass Extinction, Reveals New Study
A University of Bristol study warns that Earth’s future supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, may make the planet uninhabitable for humans and mammals. Due to a combination of rising CO₂ levels, increased solar radiation, and vast land area far from oceanic cooling, the supercontinent could experience widespread extreme temperatures. Though millions o...
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Mega Meteorite, 4 Times The Size Of Mount Everest, May Have Sparked Life On Earth: Study
This immense rock slammed into Earth, boiling the oceans and unleashing a record-breaking tsunami.
-
Extinct Walrus-like Mammal Discovered in Atlantics, Provides New Insights into Marine Evolution
Recent findings have unveiled Ontocetus posti, an extinct walrus-like mammal that lived 2.2 million years ago. Led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville from the University of Tsukuba, this discovery, made from fossils found in Norwich, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium, provides fresh insights into the evolutionary history of walruses. Initially misidentified, the foss...
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Mysterious 'Golden Egg' Discovered At The Bottom Of Pacific Ocean Baffles Scientists
The team of explorers found the shiny golden orb when they were exploring an extinct volcano during the Seascape Alaska 5 expedition.
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Megalodon Sharks Could Eat Prey the Size of Modern Killer Whales, 3D Model Based on Specimen Suggests
A team of researchers have created a 3D model of a megalodon, one of the believed to be the largest shark that ever roamed the Earth's waters. For the modeling, a team of researchers in collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH) used the specimen of an individual megalodon which was discovered back in the 1860s. It was believed to have died ...
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Mystery Event Decimated 90 Per Cent of Shark Diversity 19 Million Years Ago, New Study Finds
An ocean evet some 19 million years ago nearly wiped out the entire shark population, a new study has found. What remains today is just a sliver of the diversity of the shark population that existed then.
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Toothless, Dwarf Dolphin, A Case Study In Evolution
Scientists unveiled today an extinct species of toothless, whiskered and objectively cute mini-dolphin that plied Earth's oceans some 30 million years ago.
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What The 'Sixth Extinction' Will Look Like In The Oceans: The Largest Species Die Off First
We mostly can't see it around us, and too few of us seem to care - but nonetheless, scientists are increasingly convinced that the world is barreling towards what has been called a "sixth mass extinction" event. Simply put, species are going extinct at a rate that far exceeds what you would expect to see naturally, as a result of a major perturbati...
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This Bizarre Sea Monster Shows How Strange Life Gets After An Apocalypse
A newly discovered marine reptile is giving scientists a glimpse into the wondrous feats of nature in the face of adversity. Sclerocormus parviceps lived about 247 million years ago - in the aftermath of the most devastating mass extinction we know of, often referred to as "The Great Dying." Some 96 percent of all species went extinct, and changes ...
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Acidic Oceans Implicated in Earth's Worst Mass Extinction
It is one of science's enduring mysteries: what caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history. And, no, it is not the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
