Ancient species may have evolved more slowly and lasted longer, but the pace of evolution picked up after global ice ages, according to a new study from Virginia Tech. Published in the journal Science, the research traces the rise and fall of ancient life—long before the age of dinosaurs. If we think of the Earth […]
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The Greatest Climate Catastrophe in Human History May Have Originated the Myth of Ragnarok and Led to the Invention of Rye Bread
In Norse mythology, the end of the world, Ragnarok, begins with a three-year winter with no intervening summers: the Fimbulvetr. Now, a new research study from the National Museum of Denmark, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, shows that the myth could have roots in a real climate catastrophe that occurred 1,500 years […]
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Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn’s for Millions of Years, and Its Shadow Triggered an Ice Age
A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring similar to Saturn’s around 466 million years ago, during the Ordovician period. The research team, led by Andrew G. Tomkins from Monash University in Australia, reached this surprising conclusion after meticulously analyzing the geographical […]
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How were adolescents in the Ice Age, some 24,000 years ago, like? A new study explains
A groundbreaking study recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution has shed light on the lives of Ice Age adolescents, revealing that they underwent puberty stages quite similar to modern-day teenagers. This research fills a significant gap in our understanding of human growth during the Pleistocene epoch, around 25,000 years ago. Led by paleoanthropologist […]
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Western European populations became extinct in the Ice Age and were replaced by hunter-gatherers migrating from Eastern Europe
Around 45,000 years ago, the first modern humans arrived in Europe during the last Ice Age, marking the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period. These early human groups settled across Europe and continued to live there through harsh climatic conditions, including the Last Glacial Maximum around 25,000 years ago, when glaciers covered much of northern […]
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An Encounter 2 Million Years Ago with “Something Outside the Solar System” May have Triggered an Ice Age on Earth
Millions of years ago, Earth might have temporarily moved out of the sun’s protective shield, known as the heliosphere. This shield, depicted as a dark gray bubble against the backdrop of interstellar space, plays a crucial role in shielding our planet from harmful radiation and cosmic rays. According to recent research published in Nature Astronomy, […]
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Evidence of 6 Climate Changes Due to Variations in Earth’s Axial Tilt One Million Years Ago, Found in Southern Spain
A team of researchers has identified up to six climate episodes that occurred about a million years ago at the Quibas site, located in the town of Abanilla (Murcia, Spain). These findings, published in the journal Quaternary International, reveal a significant climate alternation for that period in Europe, marking the first time this pattern has […]
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Scientists Find Out What Turned the Earth Into a Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago
Scientists in Australia have figured out what most likely caused a period of extreme cold on Earth over 700 million years ago. By using models of how the continents move over time, they discovered low levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were to blame. This finding, published in the journal Geology, […]
