Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) represent about four-fifths of all green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they did not exist at all. Biologists have now been able to fully record the rapid increase in angiosperms in the past 140 million years. A recently released ‘time tree’ of …
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A new fossil discovery has revealed that New Zealand’s ancient monster penguins were not the only human-sized flightless birds that roamed our planet tens of millions of years ago. Recent findings in North America and Japan suggest that giant creatures like penguins also spread throughout the northern hemisphere. And these …
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Earth’s oceans simmer with heat trapped by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. But a patch of water in the North Atlantic stubbornly resists the trend and actually drops the temperature. This ‘cold drop’ has been a topic of interest to climatologists since it was first seen in 2015. Unfortunately, the …
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The South Pole has heated three times faster than the rest of the planet in the past 30 years due to the warmer temperatures of the tropical oceans, new research showed on Monday. Antarctic temperatures vary widely by season and region, and for years the South Pole was thought to …
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Only in recent years, since the historic New Horizons probe flyby in 2015, have we been able to understand Pluto in great depth or detail. We have learned a lot about the small outlier of our Solar System, but one of the biggest surprises was a series of indications that …
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