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Could alien oceans be green: Earth’s past may hold the key to finding life elsewhere
Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...
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Scientists discovered remnants of a prehistoric seafloor beneath the Pacific Ocean
This hidden remnant, detected using seismic waves, offers fresh insight into the planet’s shifting interior ... and the creation of deep ocean trenches. Traditionally, subduction is studied ...
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Early Seafarers Ruled the Oceans With Sophisticated Boats 40,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests
suggest that prehistoric Southeast Asians built sophisticated boats to fish in and travel across deep ocean waters as far back as 40,000 years ago. Their work is detailed in a study published ...
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Cretaceous Period
But the shifted continents, expanded coasts, and widened oceans had cooled and moistened the planet's climate and set in motion dramatic changes to the flora and fauna. An extraterrestrial impact ...
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Oceans may have covered Venus before it became a hell planet, study claims
The study also claims that these oceans would not have lasted long as the planet transformed into its current arid environment. While scientists claim that oceans once existed on Venus ...
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What are ammonites, and how did they come to rule the prehistoric seas?
The many chambers of their shells likely helped these cephalopods glide through the planet’s warm, shallow seas. A thin, tubelike structure called a siphuncle pumped air through the interior ...