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Natural History

What caused largest ever mass extinction?

October 21, 2020 by Dave
extinction

New study provides comprehensive reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic extinction event that wiped out 96% of species 252 million years ago.

Categories Natural History, science, study Tags Extinction, study Leave a comment

What caused Mass Extinction 360 million years ago?

May 29, 2020 by Dave
extinction

360 million years ago at least 70% of all species went extinct. What happened? A newly published paper has revealed some fresh evidence.

Categories Natural History, science Tags cause, Devonian, Extinction, study, UV-B Leave a comment

Has Dinosaur DNA really been found?

May 9, 2020March 13, 2020 by Dave
Dinosaur DNA

There are very serious claims that Dinosaur DNA has been discovered in 75 million year old bones. There are also serious challenges to this.

Categories Natural History, news, science, Skepticism Tags cartilage, chromosomes, collagen II, dinosaur, Dinosaur DNA, DNA markers, nuclei Leave a comment

Climate warming disrupts tree seed production

February 14, 2020 by Dave
Beech Tree seed production

New study uses 39 year dataset to show that Climate change is disrupting masting (seed production) and its associated functions.

Categories Climate Change, environment, Natural History, news, science, study Tags climate, masting, seed production, study Leave a comment

How did they date the oldest stardust material?

January 29, 2020January 22, 2020 by Dave
oldest material on earth discovered

Analysis of samples from meteorite reveals stardust that is 7 billion years old, far older than our sun & earth. How did they work this out?

Categories cosmology, Geology, Natural History, science Tags 7 billion, meteorite, presolar, stardust Leave a comment

The Jurassic challenge to God – ichthyosaur

October 5, 2019 by Dave
Jurassic

The discovery of specimens such as the ichthyosaur was a bold wakeup call that prevailing beliefs were wrong – Thankfully people did listen.

Categories Natural History, religion, science Tags ichthyosaur, ichthyosaurus, Julian Temperley, Jurassic, jurassic coast, mary anning Leave a comment
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