From what little we know about them, it seems very different. Mysterious creatures living in the ocean half a billion years ago – headless, messy things, mostly alien to us in all respects. Except they weren’t, new research suggests. In fact, biodata, an ancient marine life-form inhabiting the earth from …
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In the ancient past, Europe was a very different place – at one time Britain was still operating in the European continent. Only after Millennia, when that connection was long broken, did modern humans begin to rediscover the ancient art of the Stone Age that once lived in the lands …
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There are traces of ancient dust at the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean that has changed the Earth’s atmosphere, and new research suggests it came from beneath Argentina’s ice-age glaciers. Wrapped by heavy westerly winds about 20,000 years ago, these microscopic minerals would have circulated almost all over the …
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In its 6.6 billion year long history, Mars has taken its punch right from damaging asteroids and handling comets. Today, the surface of the Red Planet is covered by less than 43,000 impact craters, more than a kilometer long; Some ancient regions have suffered much more than others. In the …
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Remains of a huge, ancient lake have been found under Greenland, buried under a sheet of ice in the northwest of the country and estimated to be millions, if not thousands, years old, scientists say. The giant ‘fossil lake bed’ is a phenomenon that scientists have never seen before in …
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