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Singapore's Ultimate Prehistoric Adventure Begins at Science Centre Singap
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Singapore, October 21: The wait is nearly over. Science Centre Singapore, in collaboration with the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, at the National University of Singapore, is thrilled to unveil DINOSAURS | EXTINCTIONS | US. This spectacular showcase spans 3,000 sq
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Fossil leaves from Nagaland reveal how Antarctica shaped Indian monsoons
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new study has established a connection between the formation of Antarctica around 34 million years ago and the early evolution of the Indian monsoon system that allowed lush forests to flourish across the subcontinent, said a statement from the Ministry of Science & Technology.
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Rajasthan: 201-million-year-old Jurassic-era fossil unearthed in Jaisalmer
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Calling the discovery a major paleontological breakthrough, Dean of the Faculty of Earth System Science at Jodhpur's Jai Narain Vyas University, VS Parihar, on Monday, stated that after England, India is the only country to make a Jurassic-era discovery.
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Fossil remains of 47 million years old snake discovered in Gujarat by IIT
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
In a remarkable discovery by Professor Sunil Bajpai and Post-Doctoral Fellow Debjit Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, a 47 million years old species of snake has been unveiled in Gujarat, believed to be one of the largest snakes to have ever existed on Earth.
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"Never expected this, not in a million years": Travis Head after Australia
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Australia opener dominated the Indian bowlers on his way to a match-winning knock of 137 in 120 balls.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures a planet’s atmosphere being blasted away b
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The red dwarf star, called AU Microscopii, or AU Mic, is located outside of our solar system, 32 light-years from Earth, which is relatively close. It’s home to one of the youngest planetary systems ever observed, and the star is less than 100 million years old, as per CNN.
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Bees probably originated from ancient supercontinent earlier than suspecte
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A new study reveals that the origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most earlier estimations. Researchers from Washington State University and their colleagues have dated the bee's ancestry back more than 120 million years to the Gondwanan supercontinent, which included the
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Study finds origination of genes for learning and memory
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers from the University of Leicester and its colleagues have found that the genes necessary for memory, learning, aggression, and other complex behaviours originated around 650 million years ago.
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Research reveals Butterflies, moths share ancient ‘blocks’ of DNA
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
According to new research, butterflies and moths share "blocks" of DNA that are more than 200 million years old.
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Astrophysicists explain why Earth's day was always 19.5 hours for more tha
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The slow and steady lengthening of the Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon has been halted for more than a billion years, according to a group of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto (U of T). They demonstrate that from around two billion years ago until 600 million y
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Researchers find new species of early-toothed whale
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline around 28 million years ago.
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New study reveals biodiversity loss drove ecological collapse after the 'G
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions, the greatest of these being the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the 'Great Dying', which occurred 252 million years ago.
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