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‘Ancestor Of All Animals’ Discovered In 555-Million-Year-Old Australian Fossils
University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...
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New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
The biota contains numerous endemic and/or rare elements ... The property supports the most diverse community of breeding seabirds in the Southern Ocean. There are 126 species of birds, including 40 ...
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Scientists study Cape lakes to predict climate change impacts
Scientists are zeroing in on two little lakes in the Cape to figure out how to save them from climate change, or if they can’t, then if they could recover.
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Scientists Uncover 555-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Calling It ‘Ancestor Of All Animals’
Scientists have discovered Ikaria wariootia, a 555-million-year-old fossil in Australia, believed to be the earliest ancestor ...
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
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Could alien oceans be green: Earth’s past may hold the key to finding life elsewhere
Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...
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Tracking Some of the World’s Fiercest Ocean Currents
During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...
New Research Suggests Earth’s First Oceans Weren’t Blue: They Were Green
Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...
Forecasting the future of Southern Ocean ecosystems
Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...
The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of
The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.