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Scientists Just Found a Fossil That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known Life Form — What Is It?
A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...
Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...
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Development well permits issued in the Permian Basin by the Texas Railroad Commission, the state's oil and gas regulating ...
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Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions'
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...
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Massive star explosions may have triggered two mass extinctions in Earth's past: 'It would be terrifying.'
Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...
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Paleontologist says NJ school lost his 380M-year-old fossils, and now they're in a landfill
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...
380-million-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after N.J. college didn't pay UPS bill, lawsuit claims
The lawsuit alleges that William Paterson University's unpaid invoices led to around 200 marine fossils being discarded in ...
Professor sues William Paterson University after priceless, rare fossils were dumped in a landfill
An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...
'Devastating' Supernovae Caused Two Mass Extinctions, Claim Astrophysicists
Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...