Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered.
A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.
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Over nearly half a billion years, Earth's global temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...
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Earth’s surface temperature heating more rapidly than it has in past 485 million years, scientists say
Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...
Smithsonian Magazine18h
In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
Study charts how Earth's global temperature has drastically changed over the past 485 million years, driven by CO₂
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
Allergies: Woolly Mammoths' Hay Fever May Have Helped Drive Them to Death
Stuffy noses from plant allergies may have meant mammoths couldn't smell each other's pheromones, resulting in them ...
Scientists Think a Mega-El Niño Helped Spark the ‘Great Dying’
Now, a new study from the University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) claims that global warming caused ...
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What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?
Within the vastness of the Universe, humanity is not that big of a deal. We're not here because we're meant to be here, we're just... here. If mathematical predictions are correct, we might only have ...
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Scientists Offer New Theory for How ‘the Great Dying’ Wiped Out 90 Percent of Life on Earth
The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Earth May Have Had Rings Like Saturn 466 Million Years Ago
As one of the coldest periods in Earth's history, the Hirnantian Icehouse played a crucial role in the second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, ...