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Freshwater first appeared on Earth 4 billion years ago, ancient crystals hint

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Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the planet formed — a mere blink of an eye in geologic time.

Researchers analyzed oxygen molecules within 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from Western Australia’s Jack Hills, one of the oldest rock formations on Earth. The relative proportions of oxygen’s heaviest and lightest forms, or isotopes, in the zircons are possible only if there been a significant amount of freshwater present, geochemist Hamed Gamaleldien of

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How did an ancient shark parasite end up fossilized in tree resin?

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During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has paleontologists scratching their heads.

Unearthed in northern Myanmar, the worm has several features that closely resemble those of modern tapeworms in shark intestines, paleontologist Cihang Luo and colleagues report March 22 in Geology.

Luo’s team had been examining amber collected from traders in Myanmar, finding mostly

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Readers discuss Mimas’ hidden ocean and ancient cave art

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Hidden depths

Slight changes in the orbit of Saturn’s moon Mimas hint at the presence of a vast, young ocean beneath the satellite’s icy surface that may have formed between 5 million and 50 million years ago, Adam Mann reported in “This Saturn moon may harbor water” (SN: 3/9/24, p. 8).

Reader Bobby Baum asked how the ocean formed so recently and whether an ocean could have formed multiple times in the past.

Saturn’s moons gravitationally interact with

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Britain’s forgotten sunken lands: Incredible interactive map reveals the ancient islands swallowed by the sea – from ‘Yorkshire’s Atlantis’ to Doggerland

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Scientists often warn about the wild weather caused by climate change. 

In fact, history shows that entire settlements can be engulfed by intense storms and heaving waves that intensify coastal erosion. 

Now, MailOnline’s incredible new interactive map pinpoints these ‘lost lands’ dotted around Britain, from ‘Yorkshire’s Atlantis’ to the lush plains of Doggerland. 

These British settlements are far from mythical, as the historical records and physical evidence offer proof that they definitely existed. 

In some cases, scientists are on a

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I visited a £400 wellness retreat in Wales to try the ancient Japanese art of forest bathing – we walked barefoot through the woods and hugged trees to unlock our ‘animal selves’

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Walking barefoot down a muddy trail with a group of people I’d met the day before and attempting to ‘connect with trees’ was not how I expected to be spending a chilly Saturday afternoon in the middle of March.

Living in central London means you don’t get to spend a great deal of time in nature – expansive grassy fields and ancient woodlands are few and far between.

But, one wellness retreat in the Welsh side of the picturesque Wye

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Hidden painting is discovered at Pompeii after 2,000 years: Stunning fresco depicting Helen of Troy is revealed during excavations at the ancient Roman city

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Nearly 2,000 years since it was buried by volcanic rubble, the lost city of Pompeii is yielding even more astonishing discoveries.

Archeologists have uncovered remarkably preserved ‘fresco’ paintings on a wall at a former private residence along Via di Nola, one of Pompeii’s longest streets. 

One of the stunning artworks depicts Helen of Troy, a beautiful woman in Greek mythology, meeting Paris, prince of Troy, for the first time. 

According to legend, the resulting elopement between the two sparked the 

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Ancient Star Dune Discovery enthüllt 13.000 Jahre altes Geheimnis

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Sterndüne Lala Lallia in Erg Chebbi, Marokko. Bildnachweis: Prof. C. Bristow

Bahnbrechende Studie enthüllt das Alter und die schnelle Entstehung von Sterndünen und bietet Einblicke in die geologische Vergangenheit der Erde.

Wissenschaftler haben zum ersten Mal das mysteriöse Fehlen sternförmiger Dünen in der geologischen Geschichte der Erde aufgeklärt, die Jahrtausende zurückreichen.

Die von der Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck und UCL-Wissenschaftlern durchgeführte Studie ist die erste, die bisher untersucht hat, wie lange es dauerte, bis sich eine Sterndüne gebildet und ihre innere

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„Aliens haben uns einen Plan für Stonehenge gegeben“, sagt TV-Moderator von Ancient Aliens | Fernsehen & Radio | Showbiz und Fernsehen

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STONEHENGE ist ein „Alien-Hotspot“, der nach Plänen errichtet wurde, die „unseren Vorfahren von Außerirdischen übermittelt wurden“, behauptete ein führender US-Experte.

Giorgio A Tsoukalos, der Sendungen auf dem Blaze-TV-Kanal moderiert, darunter „Ancient Aliens“, sagt: „Stonehenge ist eine Nachbildung unseres Sonnensystems, einschließlich Pluto, das mit bloßem Auge nicht sichtbar ist. Das deutet darauf hin, dass jemand unseren Vorfahren von dem Modell erzählt hat.“ unser Sonnensystem.

„Sie wussten, dass jemand 10.000 Jahre in der Zukunft fragen würde: ‚Woher wussten sie vor 10.000 Jahren

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