Tag: ocean
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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
An artist’s reconstruction of the tube-like animals attached to the dead phragmocone..Credit…Franz Anthony The New York Times Trilobites column has a story about some very old ocean floor communities. Research published recently in the journal Communications Biology looked at a 480-million-year-old cephalopod from Morocco that was posthumously converted into a condominium. It’s the earliest known…
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PBS Eons: That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
PBS Eons has a new episode on Youtube. This one is about an extinction event during the Cretaceous Period and what it did to the oceans. This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.
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MetalBallStudios: Ocean DEPTH Comparison 🌊 (3D Animation)
MetalBallStudios has a fascinating video on Youtube that shows the depth of various lake, seas, and the oceans. Here is shown the depth of different lakes and seas and other things of interest under the water. From the beach to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench
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PBS Eons: The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about ichthyosaurs, how and why they arose.
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash
New York Times has a story about the K-Pg mass extinction event. A recently published paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the meteor at the end of the Cretaceous had an immediate and catastrophic effect on the ocean. What happened to the dinosaurs when an asteroid about six miles wide struck…
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How Deep Is The Ocean
BuzzFeed has a cool video on YouTube that shows the depth of the ocean in nice relative steps. Check it out… very interesting!
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True or Not? Floating Stones in Ocean
Interesting report on stones floating in ocean before volcano eruption. Hat tip: Joe Kubal
