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Mineral Weathering Revived Earth After Mass Extinction

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 05.08.2017 19:03 PM

Hothouse climate conditions battered and exterminated the bedrock of Earth 200 million years ago, but still life revived slowly.

250-million-year-old Mysterious Reptile Identified By It's Footprint Fossils From The Pyrenees Mountains

04.20.2017 19:04 PM

The footprints of a mysterious reptile that lived about 250 million years ago have been identified in fossils from the Pyrenees mountains. Scientists say the new species is a member of the group that gave rise to crocodiles and dinosaurs.

Scientists Claim Metal Nickel Was Involved In Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction

04.19.2017 01:50 AM

During ore formation the metal nickel got released in the atmosphere and scientists claim this pehnomena might have triggered the Mass Extinction

Fossils Prove Life Flourished Fast Even After Mass Extinction

02.16.2017 06:28 AM

Scientists have found out through fossils that life flourished fast even after mass extinction Unlike what scientists have previously thought, life has flourished abundantly after the mass extinction.

Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs Could Have Triggered the Largest Lava Flows on Earth

05.31.2015 17:35 PM

Geophysicists from the University of California, Berkeley now believe that the asteroid that slammed into the ocean off the coast of Mexico some 66 million years ago killing the dinosaurs may have also triggered volcanic eruptions around the globe that may have contributed to the devastation of the planet.

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