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Groundbreaking discovery of the world's oldest living fossils is changing evolutionary norms?
Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved 'Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...
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Intelligent aliens would need a power supply to jump-start their civilization — would they require fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...
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How are dinosaur fossils formed?
A fossil is physical evidence of a prehistoric plant or animal ... Earth's surface is broken up into huge, irregularly shaped pieces - tectonic plates - that fit together like a jigsaw. These plates ...
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People Are Confused Why You Can Find Marine Fossils On Top Of Mountains
Of course, fossils up a mountain are not evidence ... The real answer came much later when we finally learned about plate tectonics in the 1960s, a development from the continental drift theory ...
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Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa's Western Cape
These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South American tectonic plates were starting to pull apart. Southern Africa has an ...
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New proof that Earth's plate tectonics recently underwent a fundamental change
It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...