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According to recent geochemical discoveries, Earth’s ‘Great Oxidation Event’ occurred over a period of 200 million years

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: CC0 Public domain × close to Credit: CC0 Public domain About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O2first began accumulating to meaningful levels in Earth’s atmosphere, paving the way for the emergence of complex life on our evolving … Read more

Major bank with 3.1 million customers hit by outage as payments were received TWICE

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CUSTOMERS at a major bank are furious after being charged twice due to a technical glitch. People have complained to the Co-operative Bank that payments have been debited twice from some small business account holders. Co-op Bank has apologized after payments were debited twice from some accountsCredit: PA:Press Association One irate customer on It is … Read more

Astrophysicists calculate the probability that Earth was exposed to cold, hard interstellar clouds two million years ago

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: CC0 Public domain × close to Credit: CC0 Public domain About two million years ago, the Earth looked very different, where our early human ancestors lived alongside sabre-tooth tigers, mastodons and enormous rodents. And depending on where they were, … Read more

Lost era of monotremes revealed by fossils from 100 million years ago

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As the bones locked in the rocks rotted away, water-based silica seeped into the crevices, solidified into opal and preserved precious details for 100 million years. The resulting fossils now provide evidence that there may really have been an age of monotremes, before other mammals took over. “It’s like discovering a whole new civilisation,” says … Read more

Prof discovers huge long-necked dinosaur that lived 210 million years ago

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A PROFESSOR has discovered a new species of dinosaur that is 210 million years old. Kimi Chapelle, from Long Island, made the historic discovery in Zimbabwe – the fourth discovery ever in the southern African country. Long Island professor Kimi Chapelle is among researchers who have discovered a new dinosaur species in ZimbabweCredit: Stony Brook … Read more

First ever report of two ancient ape species living together in the Miocene of Europe 11 million years ago

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Buronius manfredschmidi november. gene. and sp. photos. Top panel: upper left holotype M2 (GPIT/MA/13005), A – occlusal, B – buccal, C – lingual, D – mesial, E – distal. Lower panel: lower left paratype P4 (GPIT/MA/13004), F – occlusal, G … Read more

An abandoned British airport that closed 13 years ago could serve a million passengers

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A USED UK airport could serve more than a million people every year if it gets the investment needed to reopen. Aviation experts have analyzed the potential of the transport hub near the south coast and predicted that hundreds of thousands of people could benefit from the resumption of operations, if not more. 4 Plymouth … Read more

Carbon detected in galaxy observed 350 million years after the Big Bang

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Astronomers have discovered carbon in a galaxy seen just 350 million years after the Big Bang, in observations that raise the possibility that conditions for life were present almost from the beginning of time. The observations, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, suggest that huge amounts of carbon were released when the first generation … Read more

Scientists discover Antarctica’s lost river 34 million years later

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Scientists have discovered that a river comparable in size to the Rio Grande once dominated West Antarctica, offering a rare glimpse of the continent’s land covered in ice today. It is believed that the 900-mile-long waterway flowed about 44 to 34 million years ago, shortly before the continent’s immensely thick ice sheets began to build … Read more