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Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened

Geology Page - July 6, 2016

If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth. The idea isn't...

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June 21, 2017

Feathers revealed in a ~125 million-year-old fossil of a bird hatchling shows it came "out of the egg running". Specimen MPCM-LH-26189 from Los Hoyas, Spain is preserved between two slabs of rock: (a) 'counter' slab under normal light (b) Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence (LSF) image combining the results from both rock slabs. This reveals brown patches around the specimen that include clumps of elongate feathers associated with the neck and wings and a single long vaned feather associated with the left wing. (c) Normal light image of the main slab. Scale is 5mm.

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