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Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
July 31, 2008 — Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in ... > full story -
Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change
July 27, 2008 — A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers have now found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about ... > full story -
Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt
July 23, 2008 — A small but significant find made during a geological survey provides evidence of the oldest human presence yet discovered along the northernmost margin of Egypt's Nile ... > full story -
Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding Opening Of The Drake Passage
July 23, 2008 — Due to the impact of global warming, it has become essential to understand the causes and processes involved in past climate changes. One of the most prominent events in Earth's climatic evolution ... > full story -
Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers
July 22, 2008 — Ice age climate change and ancient flooding -- but not barriers created by rivers -- may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests. ... > full story -
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
July 22, 2008 — A new fossil discovery -- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent -- provides new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. Scientists made ... > full story -
Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
July 2, 2008 — Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence suggests the answer is affirmative. The timing attached to this theory of about ... > full story -
Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests
June 15, 2008 — If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super ... > full story -
Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate
June 11, 2008 — About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team was surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment filled with plant, fish and animal ... > full story -
New Research Forces U-Turn In Population Migration Theory
May 23, 2008 — Genetic evidence that overturns existing theories about human migration into Island Southeast Asia (covering the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo) taking the timeline back by nearly 10,000 ... > full story
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