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Thick-skulled dino discovery leads researchers to believe that pre-historic Earth was more diverse
The discovery of a new thick-skulled dinosaur the size of a large dog may challenge our image of a pre-historic Earth dominated by supersized lizards, a study said Tuesday. The planet may, in fact, have been inhabited by many more types of small dinosaur than widely thought, a group of…
Scientists excited by discovery of ‘Underground Galapagos’
Diverse underground ecosystems buried deep beneath the Earth’s crust may offer clues to the origins of life on Earth, several recent studies have revealed. Whether it is tiny worms found wriggling in the depths of a South African mine or micro-organisms discovered six kilometers (3.7 miles) under the surface in…
Phallus-shaped worm-like creature sheds light on Earth’s biodiversity
Fossilised forms of a phallus-shaped invertebrate have shed light on a dramatic spurt in Earth’s biodiversity that occurred half a billion years ago, Canadian scientists reported on Wednesday. Remains of 10-centimetre (four-inch) worm-like creatures were found in shale beds in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The sediment…
The Earth is on track to to be the hottest it’s been in 11.3 millennia
The Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, a period spanning the history of human civilization, a study published Thursday has found. Based on fossil samples and other data collected from 73 sites around the world, scientists have…
Divers scour lake for fragments after meteor injures 1,200 in Russia’s Urals
Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake on Saturday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to Earth in a blinding fireball whose shockwaves injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes. The 10-tonnes meteor streaked across the sky in the Urals region on Friday morning just as the…
NASA’s Kepler suggests 17 billion Earth-sized planets in Milky Way
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet to ours. Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft found that about 17 percent of stars in our galaxy have a planet…
Astronomers launch advanced planet search to look for signs of life
Robotic telescopes in Chile’s Atacama desert will conduct Next Generation Transit Survey to analyse atmospheres for clues The art of hunting planets has come so far that astronomers can now list hundreds of alien worlds that orbit stars so faint they are not even visible as pinpricks in the clear…
Two asteroids and two comets to buzz Earth
Astronomers are gearing up for thrills this year when Earth gets buzzed by two rogue asteroids and two comets, including a wanderer last seen by the forerunners of mankind. The guardians who scour the heavens for dangerous space rocks are currently closely tracking an asteroid called 99942 Apophis. Named after…
Planet with four suns discovered 5,000 light years from Earth
WASHINGTON — An international team of amateur and professional astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with four suns — the first reported case of such a phenomenon. The planet, located about 5,000 light years from Earth, has been dubbed PH1 in honor of Planet Hunters, a program led by…
Astronomers discover planet covered in graphite and diamond
WASHINGTON — Twinkling stars are not the only diamonds in the sky. Scientists Thursday reported the existence of a “diamond planet” twice the size of Earth, and eight times its mass, zooming around a nearby star. In fact, this is not the first diamond planet ever discovered, but it is…
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