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      How Future Archaeologists Will Study Human Civilisation

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      10 Modern-Day Animals with the Strangest Evolutionary Backgrounds

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      The Cryogenian Glaciations and the Birth of Animals

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      What Would Happen if an Asteroid Hit the Earth?

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      10 Fascinating Discoveries Made by the Cassini-Huygens Mission

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      Was Ancient Mars Like Earth? How Mars Died while Earth Lived

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Exoplanet

10 Planets that Shouldn’t Exist

Charles
April 12, 2017
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10 Fascinating Facts about the Permian Period

Charles
April 1, 2018
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Neogene Earth – Human Ancestors

Charles
February 24, 2017
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10 Little-Known Prehistoric Animals that Lived before the Dinosaurs

Charles
December 7, 2016
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10 things you need to know about viruses

Charles
March 21, 2020
Earth, Listicles
From global pandemics to drivers of evolution – how viruses shape the journey of life on Earth With the coronavirus pandemic causing misery around the world, it’s more important than ever to stay positive and ... Read More...
Pyramids

How Future Archaeologists Will Study Human Civilisation

Charles
December 20, 2018
Earth, Sky
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From fossilised remnants of long-lost cities to technofossils to environmental catastrophe, how future archaeologists will study human civilisation By the beginning of the Cambrian Period, Earth’s oceans were ... Read More...
Pronghorn

10 Modern-Day Animals with the Strangest Evolutionary Backgrounds

Charles
November 12, 2018
Earth, Listicles
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Though almost universally accepted in the world of science, the story of evolution is far from predictable, which is why some animals have the strangest evolutionary backgrounds. Evolution is all about the sur... Read More...
Asteroid impact

What Would Happen if an Asteroid Hit the Earth?

Charles
June 26, 2018
Earth, Sky
Unlike the dinosaurs, we humans have a fairly good idea of what would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth. Let’s explore the space-born apocalypse! 66-million years ago, an asteroid between six and nine miles ... Read More...

10 Fascinating Facts about the Permian Period

Charles
April 1, 2018
Earth, Listicles
Long before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, humid swamp forests, giant insects and amphibious megafauna ruled the landscape of the Permian Period. The last geographical period before the rise of the dinosaurs,... Read More...
Snowball Earth

The Cryogenian Glaciations and the Birth of Animals

Charles
February 7, 2018
Earth
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720 million years ago, our world froze over during the Cryogenian glaciations, but that doesn’t seem to have prevented the rise of the very first animals. When we think of the ice age, the first image that us... Read More...

What Space Travel Will Look Like in the Future

Charles
December 18, 2017
Sky
Science fiction might inspire us to dream, but here’s a rather more realistic vision of what space travel will look like in the future. When Jules Verne wrote his novel From the Earth to the Moon over 150 year... Read More...

Exploring the Environmental Ruin of the Permian Mass Extinction

Charles
October 26, 2017
Earth
252 million years ago, life on Earth almost ceased to exist as a volcanic apocalypse heralded the Permian Mass Extinction. When it comes to mass extinctions, the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs gets most of ... Read More...
Artist's impression of Cassini and Saturn

10 Fascinating Discoveries Made by the Cassini-Huygens Mission

Charles
September 8, 2017
Listicles, Sky
The enormously successful Cassini-Huygens Mission is ending, but it has made many important discoveries during its 20 years of service. After a two-month break over the summer, I think it’s most fitting to sta... Read More...

Could Dinosaurs Live in Today’s Environment?

Charles
June 28, 2017
Earth
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Popular culture might try have us believe that dinosaurs could live in today’s environment, but the reality is far more complicated. “Life, uh, finds a way” is perhaps the most memorable quote from the 1993 hi... Read More...
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