In 2015, a video of hammerhead sharks and silky sharks swimming in an underwater volcano, with high water temperatures and acidity levels, went viral. Nicknamed “shark shark”, people wondered if there was any place where sharks couldn’t survive. (Spoiler alert: There are a few, like Mount Everest and your backyard …
Read More »Volcanoes may have helped life rebound after attack by dinosaur-killing asteroid
On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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