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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 17+ 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…...
Deep ocean sand analysis may predict how far Earth’s climate will shift
20+ hour, 27+ min ago (641+ words) Reading that absence is one of geology’s oldest skills, dating back more than two centuries....He wanted proof that Earth was unimaginably old....They focused on the Eocene-Oligocene transition, when Earth flipped from a warm greenhouse world into...an icehouse…...
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…...
Frozen ground shakes differently, and that could reveal ice buried on the Moon
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1034+ words) Seismic waves cross icy ground far faster than dry soil, giving future Moon missions a way to map lunar...NASA plans to land astronauts near the Moon’s south pole in 2028, and everything they drink or breathe...must be launched from…...
Scientists think they know how the first birds on Earth learned to fly
4+ week, 1+ day ago (986+ words) measurements from zebra finch takeoffs, including body movements and the force of each push against the ground...
Anak Krakatau erupts as enormous ash cloud spreads across Indonesia
5+ day, 14+ min ago (731+ words) Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory captures a powerful eruption unfolding at Anak Krakatau...Anak Krakatau, which means “Child of Krakatau,” occupies one of the most famous volcanic settings on...Earth....The September eruption was one of…...
Scientists are getting better at predicting where massive earthquakes will strike
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (863+ words) was led by UCR geophysicists Gareth Funning and Axel Periollat, who spend their careers watching how Earth...The team focused their approach on subduction zones, the places where one tectonic plate slides underneath...These are the zones responsible for Earth…...
Rare lava lake glows inside a volcano near Antarctica
6+ day, 23+ 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…...
This ‘living dinosaur’ survives up to 427 years and rank among the world’s longest-lived vertebrates
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (913+ words) New research suggests lake sturgeon may live for centuries, reshaping conservation plans for one of the...The five populations did not all land in the same place, and the Lake Winnebago and Menominee River fish...