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Early Earth Was Bombarded by Barrage of City-Sized Asteroids – Perhaps 10x More Huge Impactors Than Thought

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Early Earth Was Bombarded by Barrage of City-Sized Asteroids – Perhaps 10x More Huge Impactors Than Thought

Meteor Crater, Arizona. This crater is the result of an impact of a 50m meteor, whereas the impacts described in the current work may have been hundreds of times bigger.…

18 July 2021 · 4 min read

Ancient Diamonds Show Earth Was Primed for Life’s Explosion of Diversity at Least 2.7 Billion Years Ago

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Ancient Diamonds Show Earth Was Primed for Life’s Explosion of Diversity at Least 2.7 Billion Years Ago

One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth’s…

18 July 2021 · 5 min read

The City of David and the 80 Million-Year-Old Sharks’ Teeth Mystery

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The City of David and the 80 Million-Year-Old Sharks’ Teeth Mystery

Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none — in a…

18 July 2021 · 5 min read