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| Study of Antarctic ice’s deep past shows it could be more vulnerable to warming Posted: 15 Dec 2021 08:33 AM PST Insights into how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to a warmer climate millions of years ago could improve predictions of its future. |
| Visually stunning tree of all known life unveiled online Posted: 14 Dec 2021 05:45 AM PST OneZoom is a one-stop site for exploring all life on Earth, its evolutionary history, and how much of it is threatened with extinction. |
| Earliest adorned female infant burial in Europe significant in understanding evolution of personhood Posted: 14 Dec 2021 05:45 AM PST Ten thousand years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave with a rich selection of their treasured beads and pendants, showing that even the youngest females were recognized as full persons in their society. The excavations and analysis of the discovery offer insight into the early Mesolithic period, from which few recorded burials are known. |
| Big-headed ancient fish had land on its mind Posted: 13 Dec 2021 06:49 AM PST Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of an Australian fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left the water to invade land about 370 million years ago. Palaeontologists studied Cladarosymblema narrienense, a 330 million-year-old fish from the Carboniferous Period found in Queensland, which is an ancestor of the first land animals or four-limbed vertebrate tetrapods. |
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