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A steaming cauldron followed the dinosaurs' demise
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 30 (ANI): A new study reveals the Chicxulub impact crater may have harboured a vast and long-lived hydrothermal system after the catastrophic impact event linked to the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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4-billion-year-old Nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Mar
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 29 (ANI): Using advanced techniques, scientists have detected organic compounds containing nitrogen in Martian meteorites which were ejected from Mars's surface about 15 million years ago.
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70 Million years ago days were half-hour shorter
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, which eventually means a day lasted only 23 and a half hours, says new research.
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Astronomers discover a superfast star coming out of supermassive black hol
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 13 (ANI): Travelling at an extreme speed of six million km/hour, astronomers observed an ultrafast star ejected by a supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.
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Study reveals details of another mass-extinction held 260 million years ag
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 15 (ANI): Researchers have recently learned about a new catastrophic mass-extinction event that happened around 260 million years ago.
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Researchers identify prehistoric crocodile
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 15 (ANI): Researchers took nearly 250 years to identify the fossils of an ancient crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago.
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Scientist find bird foot with extremely long toe
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a bird foot from 99 million years ago that had a hyper-elongated third toe.
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Bedbugs evolved around 50 milion years ago, study reveals
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): It turns out bedbugs are older than bats - a mammal that people had previously believed to be their first host 50-60 million years ago. Bedbugs in fact evolved around 50 million years earlier, a recent study suggests.
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Scientists may be able to produce spicy tomatoes
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan08 (ANI): While the chilli pepper and tomato split off from a common ancestor 19 million years ago, it turns out they still share some of the same DNA.
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Dinosaurs more calorie-conscious than humans!
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC, [USA] July 15 (ANI): Vegetables consumed by herbivore dinosaurs 150 million years ago had a higher nutritional value than the ones human beings consume in the polluted environment of the 21st century.
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Greenhouse gases responsible for long-term climate change
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 3 (ANI): Turns out, greenhouse gases were the main drivers of climate change 66 million years ago, providing insight into the causes behind long-term climate change.
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