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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5h

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 9h

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.

www.sciencenews.org/article/long...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 15h

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule.

www.livescience.com/physics-math...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different continents.

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent Gondwana.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

The discovery of organic compounds bolsters the case that Saturn’s moon Enceladus could support life, researchers report.

www.futurity.org/saturn-moon-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers have finally discovered the true identity of a huge dinosaur which lived in the seas hundreds of millions of years ago.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness.

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

A nearly complete fossil skeleton found on the U.K.'s Jurassic Coast represents a newly identified species of ancient marine reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs.

www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as previously thought – and NASA’s upcoming mission could investigate further.

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

Snowball Earth: Earth really did freeze over, Israeli-led team confirms, but fresh data from ancient seas show we still don't know why.

www.haaretz.com/science-and-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

Elephants were on the menu for hominins living in Italy 400,000 years ago, and a rare fossil reveals the tools they used, as well as those they got out of the process.

www.iflscience.com/400000-year-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Researchers have confirmed that the Red Sea once vanished entirely, turning into a barren salt desert before being suddenly flooded by waters from the Indian Ocean.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Using colorful Anolis lizards and math borrowed from finance, researchers have created the first model linking evolution over short and long timescales.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

In 2006, scientists described a 125-million-year-old fossil unlike anything seen before — a prehistoric reptile with two heads.

www.iflscience.com/check-out-th...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to paleontologists.

nypost.com/2025/10/08/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

Learn more about the bearded vulture, which historically accumulated human-made materials such as strings, baskets, and bolts in the cliffs of southern Spain.

www.discovermagazine.com/vultures-sta...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

As many as 30,000 Romans fled the Pompeii ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as a fragile, ashen shantytown.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

Scientifically named Galgadraco zephyrius, a recently discovered species represents the first Brazilian azhdarchid pterosaur and bears striking similarities to a species from the Haţeg Basin of Romania.

www.sci.news/paleontology...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

A set of fossilized footprints discovered in northern Arizona has revealed the silent journey of a prehistoric arachnid that walked the Earth around 260 million years ago.

dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/foss...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

A 200-year-old rock painting in South Africa may depict a long-extinct tusked reptile, suggesting the Indigenous San people recognized fossils.

allthatsinteresting.com/south-africa...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

Researchers uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 8d

Learn about the first Neanderthal tracksites found in the Iberian Peninsula, featuring footprints from adults, adolescents, and children.

www.discovermagazine.com/neanderthal-...

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