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Fossil Discovery Challenges Beliefs about Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Chile

In a groundbreaking find, scientists in Chile have unearthed the remains of a previously unknown species of herbivorous dinosaur, challenging long-held beliefs about the distribution of duck-billed dinosaurs. The discovery of the dinosaur, named Gonkoken nanoi, is significant as it is the first of its...

Study reveals the true value of elephants

New research in elephant services and benefits has revealed that many values are frequently overlooked when deciding how elephants should be protected. The collaboration between universities in England, South Africa and University of Portsmouth have discovered that conservation strategies frequently have a narrow focus and...

Ocean study shows most deep-water microbes are almost inactive

A team of researchers from the University of Vienna discovered that the vast majority of deep-water microbes are mostly dormant. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers described their long-term study of microbes at great depths in the Atlantic, Pacific...

Mid-depth waters off the United States East Coast are getting saltier

A new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) reveals a significant increase in the frequency of warm saltwater intrusions from the deep ocean to the continental shelf along the Middle Atlantic Bight, which stretches from the Gulf of Maine to Cape...

Wildfires may have sparked ecosystem collapse during Earth’s worst mass extinction

Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History studied the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago), which wiped out almost every species on Earth and collapsed entire ecosystems. The researchers discovered a significant increase in wildfire activity as...

NASA’s ECOSTRESS detects ‘heat islands’ in extreme Indian heat wave

A relentless heat wave has blanketed India and Pakistan since mid-March. It caused dozens of deaths, fires, increased air pollution and reduced crop yields. Weather forecasts show no prospect of relief any time soon. NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station instrument...