For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...
The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of ...
Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...
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What the Ice Age did to animals and ecosystems
During the Ice Age, massive glaciers covered large portions of the Northern Hemisphere, dramatically altering the distribution of plants and animals. Entire ecosystems shifted as species adapted to ...
Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...
Learn how ancient DNA uncovered Ice Age forests on sunken Doggerland and revealed a landscape that once linked Britain to mainland Europe.
Dr. Robyn Barbato, a senior research microbiologist and leader of ERDC-CRREL’s soil microbiology team, coring permafrost samples in the Permafrost Tunnel in Fox, Alaska. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ ...
Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.
When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...
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Scientists discover a giant 300-meter crater hiding a rare underwater volcano from the end of the Ice Age
A scientific expedition in the Barents Sea has revealed a remarkable geological structure hidden beneath the Arctic waters: ...
This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...
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