It’s known that the primary cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago, was a meteorite impact. But the exact mechanisms that linked the meteorite impact […]
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Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction Triggered The Switch To Warm-bloodedness
Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great success. University of Bristol palaeontologist Professor Mike Benton, identifies in the journal Gondwana […]
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Evolution Of The Earth's Atmosphere During Late Veneer Accretion
Recent advances in our understanding of the dynamical history of the Solar system have altered the inferred bombardment history of the Earth during accretion of the Late Veneer, after the […]
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Did Meteorite Impacts Help Create Life On Earth And Beyond?
What if impact craters, long seen as harbingers of death, turned out to be the cradle of life? For Western University planetary scientist Gordon Osinski, this isn’t just the big […]
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Evolution After Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: Rapid Response of Life to End-Cretaceous Mass
The impact event that formed the Chicxulub crater (Yucatán Peninsula, México) caused the extinction of 75% of species on Earth 66 million years ago, including non-avian dinosaurs. One place that […]
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Ancient Asteroid Impacts Created The Ingredients Of Life On Earth And Mars
A new study reveals that asteroid impact sites in the ocean may possess a crucial link in explaining the formation of the essential molecules for life. The study discovered the […]
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Dinosaur-dooming Asteroid Struck Earth At The Deadliest Possible Angle
The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised the amount of climate-changing gases thrust into the upper atmosphere. Such a strike […]
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Study Links Ocean Deoxygenation To Ancient Die-off
In a new study, Stanford researchers have strongly bolstered the theory that a lack of oxygen in Earth’s oceans contributed to a devastating die-off approximately 444 million years ago. The […]
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In Earth's Largest Extinction Land Animal Die-offs Began Long Before Marine Extinction
The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Peri od 252 million years ago — one of the great turnovers of life on Earth — appears to have played […]
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Pleistocene Comet Impact And Earth's Culture And Environment
Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled […]