Earth & Climate

Giant marine dinosaur evolved in record time

Artist's impression of Cymbospondylus youngorum hunting 246 million years ago. Stephanie Abramowicz. Stephanie Abramowicz / Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County...

Sometimes a wildfire is also good for the climate

Although wildfires often bring death and destruction, well-controlled fires could just offset part of our CO2 emissions. Scientists are currently looking for ways to capture...

You can feel, see and.. hear climate change!

There is music in melting glaciers. The earth is warming. And that causes glaciers on, for example, Greenland and Spitsbergen to melt. This...

Vikings: Expelled from Greenland by rising tides?

The Vikings once built houses similar to this one in Greenland. (Image: ManuelVelasco / iStock) A good thousand years ago, the Vikings reached Greenland and...

Are there viruses on Mars?

It certainly does not seem inconceivable, researchers have to conclude after research in the Martian Atacama desert. Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest...

Dino embryo in bird-like attitude

Artist's impression of "Baby Yingliang" in its egg. (Image: LIDA XING) He is called "Baby Yingliang": paleontologists report on a dinosaur embryo preserved in...

Giant arthropod fossil

This is what possibly the largest arthropod of all time could have looked like. (Image: Neil Davies) It was around 2.60 meters long, weighed...

Himalayan glaciers are melting at lightning speed

And that could lead to water shortages for millions of people in Asia. The Himalayas are also referred to as the 'third pole' of the...

Dinosaur jaws got stronger

Plant and carnivorous dinosaurs from the theropod group. (Image: Gabriel Ugueto) A study shows that dinosaurs from the theropod group developed increasingly stable jaws...

Fierce fires in Brazilian wetland killed nearly 17 million vertebrates

While we were weighed down by the corona crisis, an unprecedented amount of animals, including birds, primates and jaguars, died in the largest tropical...

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