News tagged with million years
Isthmus of Panama formed as result of plate tectonics
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Contrary to previous evidence, a new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by a Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate ...
Dinosaurrific! New Dinosaur Supertree
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the ‘Terrestrial Revolution’ that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects ...
Volcanic eruptions wiped out ocean life 93 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 16, 2008 |
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University of Alberta scientists contend they have the answer to mass extinction of animals and plants 93 million years ago. The answer, research has uncovered, has been found at the bottom of the sea floor where lava fountains ...
Marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a proc ...
Ancient marine invertebrate diversity less explosive than thought
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international ...
Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion ...
