Tag: deeptime
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the "Messinian Salinity Crisis", which is the time when the Mediterranean Sea was separated from the Atlantic Ocean. In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced…
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period?
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the coal swamps of the late Carboniferous Period. The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes – the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come – to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial…
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UIUC: A mammoth tribute to Illinois history
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has a new statue… and it’s a mammoth! A statue of a woolly mammoth was installed recently near the Natural History Building. The statue was sculpted by Taylor Studios in Rantoul, Illinois. You can find the press release here. Thanks for the tip, Ben Riegler! The next, and past, big thing:…
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ScienceNews: The Smithsonian’s ‘Deep Time’ exhibit gives dinosaurs new life, Reopens today, June 8th, 2019!
ScienceNews has an article about the reopening of the dinosaur hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Today, June 8th, 2019 is the long awaited day. It’s called the “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time“. The renovations have taken 5 years to complete. The exhibit starts with…
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Check an Address Through Deep Time
There is an interesting page at dinosaurpictures.org, which will show you a location on earth through deep time. The Mazon Creek area looks about right for 300 million years ago. And, check out the young Rockies 66 million years ago.
