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Earth’s Oldest Impact Crater Discovered in Australia
Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
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Oldest Known Impact Crater Discovered in Australia
The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...
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Oldest-Known Asteroid Crater is Discovered in the Outback–Made More Than 3 Billion Years Ago
Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.
World’s oldest-known meteor crater discovered in Australia is 3.5BILLION years old and was once 60miles wide
THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.
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The photographer capturing the ‘indescribable magic’ of Australia’s landscapes
When Lisa Michele Burns set out to photograph Australia in 2022, she didn’t quite realize how enormous it was. She recalled a ...
Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World’s Oldest by Over a Billion Years
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...
125-Million-Year-Old Scorpion Fossil Discovered in China, Shedding Light on Mesozoic-Era Predators
A newly discovered scorpion fossil, Jeholia longchengi, reveals insights into China’s Early Cretaceous ecosystem.
Interesting Engineering3d
Genetic testing paves way for juicier, larger tomatoes and eggplants
The genetic duplicates, or paralogs, played a crucial role in shaping traits such as flowering time, fruit size, and shape.
Plants struggled for millions of years after Earth’s worst climate catastrophe – new study
A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all ...
Scientists' plan to bring Tasmanian Tiger back from extinction as gruesome 110-year discovery was made
The significance of this 110-year-old discovery is that the head contained ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, which carry the ...
Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.