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Scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earth’s history, scientists suggest
The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
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Geoscience highlights from the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is among the world’s leading academic institutions and natural science is one of its most celebrated programs. Since its founding in the seventeenth century, the university has been a repository for specimens of scientific curiosity. … Continue reading
Newly Found 5.7 Million-year-old Human Footprints Fossil May Challenge History of Human Evolution
A trail of 5.7 million-year-old fossil footprints discovered in Crete could upend the widely accepted theories on early human evolution. The new prints have a distinctly human-like form, with a similar big toe to our own and a ‘ball’ in … Continue reading
Earth history: How continents were recycled
Researchers have used computer simulations to analyse how plate tectonics have evolved on Earth over the last three billion years. They show that tectonic processes have changed in the course of the time, and demonstrate how those changes contributed to … Continue reading
Emeralds from the Hohe Tauern (Austria): a precious stone with a long history
The mineral, emerald, represents the green variety of the hexagonal silicate mineral beryl, which has the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Its colour may be interpreted as the result of the addition of vanadium and chromium ions into the crystal lattice. In … Continue reading
Nebraska, USA: wonderful fossils, natural history museums and public art depicting fossils
Nebraska is known by vertebrate palaeontologists as the place in North America where there is a very complete Cenozoic geologic record of mammalian evolution over the last thirty-five million years or so. All you have to do is visit any … Continue reading
A skull with history: A fossil sheds light on the origin of the neocortex
According to a recent study an early relative of mammals already possessed an extraordinarily expanded brain with a neocortex-like structure. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Gnat in Amber Raises Questions About India’s Tectonic History
Palaeognoriste orientale, a new species of Lygistorrhinidae in Indian amber, which has its closest relatives in European Baltic amber. A newly discovered species hints at early connections between the Indian and European landmasses. A previously unknown species of gnat found … Continue reading
Sea level as a metronome of Earth’s history
Sedimentary layers contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over millennia. Researchers have been working on an analytical method that combines observing deep-water sedimentary strata and measuring in them … Continue reading
Exhibition: A flame-filled history
Nature Geoscience 10, 326 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2944 Author: Robert Emberson Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds