Earth’s Oceans Were Green a Billion Years Ago. They Could Soon Be Green Again.
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...
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Remains Of 90-Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered In Antarctica
Though the Earth was much warmer when dinosaurs roamed 90 million years ago, it’s hard to imagine the South Pole as a luscious, vibrant environment. According to CNN, however, new evidence suggests ...
Humans evolved to live on an icy planet. Earth is usually much hotter.
As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.
New Study Says Earth Once Had Green Oceans
A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...
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Earliest modern bird lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show
One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters ... asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of ...
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Earth’s oceans may have been green for billions of years
Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion years to 600 million years ago, probably shaped the evolution of the cyanobacteria that filled the atmosphere with breathable quantities ...