US geologists claim to have identified a suspect in the Earth's largest and most mysterious mass extinction - a large impact crater off the coast of Australia. However, other geologists are not convin...
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Geologists have discovered microscopic burrows where some of Earth's earliest lifeforms bored their way into volcanic glass 3.5 billion years ago. The tubes, from rocks in South Africa's Barberton G...
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Direct evidence has now been found to show that trilobites - among the most diverse of fossil animal groups - were eaten by other ancient sea creatures. Scientists discovered cracked trilobite body ...
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We've covered this topic before, but it requires it's own thread now as advances in analysis create new data to work with.
In simple terms, it is believed that fragments of an extraterrestrial impac...
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I found this on the BBC. Fascinating stuff. I've always been interested in these sorts of transformational events.
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Life's lucky 'kick start'
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online...
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This is a fascinating story - a single creek in Australia harbouring a plant believed extinct, that has a fossil record originating 175 million years ago..,now turned over for full commerical exploita...
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Just really for the humour value of imagining buffalo-sized guinea-pigs roaming the wilds of South America.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994183
Buffalo-sized guinea pig reveal...
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Here's an interesting article, continuing a long fascination with news about lastest theories on mass extinctions in the geological record:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994138
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Here's a fun little article - basically, after analysing the fossil contents of fossilised Ichthyosaur skeletons, the idea that a belamite crash caused their extintion appears unsupported now (t...
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Here is an article from the BBC about the recent NASA mappings in the area of the Chicxulub crater.
AND this is the perfect excuse to get onto a topic to get my teeth into.
First of all, the entire n...
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