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Off track: How storms will veer in a warmer world
The dry, semi-arid regions are expanding into higher latitudes, and temperate, rainy regions are migrating poleward. In a new paper, researchers provide new insight into this phenomenon by discovering that mid-latitude storms are steered further toward the poles in a … Continue reading
Scientists Believe They Finally Found The 8th Wonder Of The World
The lost pink and white terraces, the eight natural wonder of the world Scientists believe they have finally discovered the “Eighth Wonder Of The World” in New Zealand, buried by a massive volcanic eruption. Now, 131 years since the natural … Continue reading
Mount Everest is NOT The Tallest Mountain in The World
Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii. Photo: NASA The world’s tallest mountain technically is not Mount Everest. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain above sea level, but if we’re talking sheer height here, base to summit, then the tallest mountain is Mauna … Continue reading
The weird world of fossil worm cocoons
Fossil hunters occasionally chance upon small glossy red to amber-coloured, roughly circular objects on bedding planes, when they crack open shales that were deposited in ancient swamps and rivers. These curious fossils range from about a millimetre in diameter up … Continue reading
unearthedgemstones: Out of this world beauty! Such an intricate…
unearthedgemstones: Out of this world beauty! Such an intricate fluorite on calcite. Love love love! Geology Nerd
Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World
An Ice Age site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according … Continue reading
Rock exposed in World War I trenches offers new fossil find
An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world’s oceans. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
World earthquakes
Eor tens of millions of individuals within the western a part of Sichuan province in China, the morning of 12 May 2008 began out as a day like some other. People left their houses for work as ordinary, saying goodbye … Continue reading
The Largest Rough Ruby Crystal within the World
This distinctive specimen is among the world’s largest recognized tough ruby gems. This distinctive single pure ruby crystal weighs H.P lbs. or 18,696 carats. The ruby is semi-translucent to opaque and accommodates rutile, which can create a six-ray star if … Continue reading
Ancient, scary and alien-wanting specimen varieties a rarity within the insect world — a brand new order
Researchers have found a one hundred-million-yr-previous insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, virtually-alien and ‘W.T.-like’ look and options so uncommon that it has been positioned in its personal scientific ‘order’ — an extremely uncommon occasion. Paleontology News — … Continue reading