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Fossil of elephant ranging between 5 to 8 million years found in UP's Saha
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 20 (ANI): A fossil of an elephant was discovered from the Siwalik sediments exposed in the vicinity of Badshahi Bagh area in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur.
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Planets must be formed early
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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Evidence support early formation of planets around newborn stars
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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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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Asteroid could end life on earth after 10 million years, warn scientists
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 17 (ANI): A mile-long binary asteroid could potentially put an end to human existence if it breaks up into pieces and heads in our direction.
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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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Researchers uncover reason behind major mass extinction of Earth
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 1 (ANI): Around 420 million years back in the pre-historic Silurian Period, Earth suffered a major mass extinction, which wiped out almost 23 per cent of the marine life.
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