Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
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Cold never bothered them anyway!
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Cold never bothered them anyway!
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December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Cold never bothered them anyway!
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Cold never bothered them anyway!
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Cold didn’t kill mammoths.
It shaped a world that worked in their favor.
Ice Age grasslands, genetic adaptations, and even their blood helped mammoths thrive for hundreds of thousands of years…
until that world disappeared.
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It shaped a world that worked in their favor.
Ice Age grasslands, genetic adaptations, and even their blood helped mammoths thrive for hundreds of thousands of years…
until that world disappeared.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
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Why Mammoths Thrived in the Ice Age That Killed So Many Others
How grasslands, genetics, and physiology shaped mammoth success
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December 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Cold didn’t kill mammoths.
It shaped a world that worked in their favor.
Ice Age grasslands, genetic adaptations, and even their blood helped mammoths thrive for hundreds of thousands of years…
until that world disappeared.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
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It shaped a world that worked in their favor.
Ice Age grasslands, genetic adaptations, and even their blood helped mammoths thrive for hundreds of thousands of years…
until that world disappeared.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
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December 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why did turtles survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? 🐢☄️
Hint: It wasn't luck.
When the environment crashes, specialization is a trap.
The winners of the next epoch were the ones who could eat anything and hide anywhere.
Here is what the past teaches us about resilience
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Hint: It wasn't luck.
When the environment crashes, specialization is a trap.
The winners of the next epoch were the ones who could eat anything and hide anywhere.
Here is what the past teaches us about resilience
🧪 #SciComm
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December 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why did turtles survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? 🐢☄️
Hint: It wasn't luck.
When the environment crashes, specialization is a trap.
The winners of the next epoch were the ones who could eat anything and hide anywhere.
Here is what the past teaches us about resilience
🧪 #SciComm
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Hint: It wasn't luck.
When the environment crashes, specialization is a trap.
The winners of the next epoch were the ones who could eat anything and hide anywhere.
Here is what the past teaches us about resilience
🧪 #SciComm
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Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid darkened the sky and collapsed food webs worldwide
Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, but some birds, mammals, turtles, and fish survived
Why?
It wasn’t luck
It was biology
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Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, but some birds, mammals, turtles, and fish survived
Why?
It wasn’t luck
It was biology
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How to Survive an Asteroid Impact
Lessons from the species that made it through Earth’s darkest months
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December 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid darkened the sky and collapsed food webs worldwide
Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, but some birds, mammals, turtles, and fish survived
Why?
It wasn’t luck
It was biology
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🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
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Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, but some birds, mammals, turtles, and fish survived
Why?
It wasn’t luck
It was biology
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🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
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We still live in an Ice Age.
Not a frozen planet, but a long rhythm of ice advance and retreat that began 2.6 million years ago.
The calm climate we know is an interglacial pause. Past changes unfolded over thousands of years.
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Not a frozen planet, but a long rhythm of ice advance and retreat that began 2.6 million years ago.
The calm climate we know is an interglacial pause. Past changes unfolded over thousands of years.
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Understanding the Ice Age We Still Live In
Why the last 2.6 million years were shaped by slow cycles of ice advance and retreat
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December 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We still live in an Ice Age.
Not a frozen planet, but a long rhythm of ice advance and retreat that began 2.6 million years ago.
The calm climate we know is an interglacial pause. Past changes unfolded over thousands of years.
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🧪 #SciComm #Climate
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Not a frozen planet, but a long rhythm of ice advance and retreat that began 2.6 million years ago.
The calm climate we know is an interglacial pause. Past changes unfolded over thousands of years.
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🧪 #SciComm #Climate
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Coral reefs have survived ice ages and sea-level swings.
But once, they stopped growing for 3,000 years... and then recovered.
New research shows why that pause mattered…
and what it means for reefs facing rapid change today.
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But once, they stopped growing for 3,000 years... and then recovered.
New research shows why that pause mattered…
and what it means for reefs facing rapid change today.
🧪 #SciComm
The 3,000-Year Coral Reef Shutdown That Left Scientists Puzzled
When Coral Reefs Took a Break and Why It Matters Today
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December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Coral reefs have survived ice ages and sea-level swings.
But once, they stopped growing for 3,000 years... and then recovered.
New research shows why that pause mattered…
and what it means for reefs facing rapid change today.
🧪 #SciComm
But once, they stopped growing for 3,000 years... and then recovered.
New research shows why that pause mattered…
and what it means for reefs facing rapid change today.
🧪 #SciComm
We tend to picture dinosaurs emerging from lush, temperate worlds.
New research suggests their story may have begun somewhere very different:
hot, dry tropical Gondwana: deserts, not forests.
Sometimes origins hide where we least expect them.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
New research suggests their story may have begun somewhere very different:
hot, dry tropical Gondwana: deserts, not forests.
Sometimes origins hide where we least expect them.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
The Mystery of Dinosaur Origins Takes a Tropical Twist
New research suggests dinosaurs may have first evolved in the hot, arid tropics of Gondwana, reshaping our understanding of their origins
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December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We tend to picture dinosaurs emerging from lush, temperate worlds.
New research suggests their story may have begun somewhere very different:
hot, dry tropical Gondwana: deserts, not forests.
Sometimes origins hide where we least expect them.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
New research suggests their story may have begun somewhere very different:
hot, dry tropical Gondwana: deserts, not forests.
Sometimes origins hide where we least expect them.
🧪 #SciComm #Paleontology
Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
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But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
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That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything (And Made Us Possible)
How life survived a planet-changing chemical shift billions of years ago
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December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
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But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
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A 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub emerged from melting permafrost... whiskers intact.
Incredible science.
But the reason we’re finding more of these animals isn’t better fieldwork.
It’s a warming Arctic slowly unlocking carbon we were never meant to release.
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Incredible science.
But the reason we’re finding more of these animals isn’t better fieldwork.
It’s a warming Arctic slowly unlocking carbon we were never meant to release.
🧪 #SciComm
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Melting Permafrost Reveals Cute Ice-Age Animals — and Climate Challenges?
As ice-age creatures resurface from the frost, scientists grapple with the climate risks of thawing permafrost
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December 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub emerged from melting permafrost... whiskers intact.
Incredible science.
But the reason we’re finding more of these animals isn’t better fieldwork.
It’s a warming Arctic slowly unlocking carbon we were never meant to release.
🧪 #SciComm
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Incredible science.
But the reason we’re finding more of these animals isn’t better fieldwork.
It’s a warming Arctic slowly unlocking carbon we were never meant to release.
🧪 #SciComm
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Life didn’t begin in an oxygen-rich world.
And when oxygen finally appeared, it nearly wiped life out.
So, how did a gas we depend on today almost end life billions of years ago?
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And when oxygen finally appeared, it nearly wiped life out.
So, how did a gas we depend on today almost end life billions of years ago?
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🧪 #SciComm
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December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Life didn’t begin in an oxygen-rich world.
And when oxygen finally appeared, it nearly wiped life out.
So, how did a gas we depend on today almost end life billions of years ago?
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And when oxygen finally appeared, it nearly wiped life out.
So, how did a gas we depend on today almost end life billions of years ago?
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Four billion years ago, Earth had oceans and solid ground.
Yet clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
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Yet clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
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4 Billion Years Ago, Earth Looked Ready for Life. So What Took So Long?
How early Earth’s instability and missing rocks shape what we know about life’s origins Let’s take a time machine and travel back over four billion years,...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Four billion years ago, Earth had oceans and solid ground.
Yet clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
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Yet clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
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Earth formed, cooled, and had oceans early on.
But clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
#Paleontology
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But clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
#Paleontology
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Earth Formed. Oceans Appeared. But Life… Waited. Why?
Did you know that after the Earth formation 4.5 billion years ago, there's a significant gap before we see clear evidence of first life on earth? This video explores how the early, chaotic ancient…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Earth formed, cooled, and had oceans early on.
But clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
#Paleontology
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But clear evidence of life doesn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago.
Why the gap?
#Paleontology
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Earth’s age wasn’t solved with satellites or lasers.
It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
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It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
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How Scientists Discovered Earth’s Age With Nothing But Rocks, Fossils, and Physics
The long road from relative time to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet If you look at the geologic timescale today, with its Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Earth’s age wasn’t solved with satellites or lasers.
It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
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It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
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When the asteroid hit, oceans collapsed.
Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
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Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
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How Rivers Saved Life When Oceans Died #extinction #ecosystem #survival
Did you know that after the devastating meteor impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs, many aquatic ecosystems like rivers and lakes defied collapse? This video explores how their distinctive food…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When the asteroid hit, oceans collapsed.
Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
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Rivers and lakes… didn’t.
Freshwater ecosystems lost far fewer animal families.
The reason has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with how their food webs worked.
🧪 #SciComm
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Everyone knows about the crater.
Fewer people know what happened to sunlight after the impact.
That missing detail changes everything about the extinction.
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Fewer people know what happened to sunlight after the impact.
That missing detail changes everything about the extinction.
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How Dark Did Earth Get After the Dino‑Killing Asteroid? #dinosaurs #extinction
Did you know that after a massive meteor impact 66 million years ago, Earth plunged into a period of prolonged darkness? This video explores how particles like dust and soot filled the atmosphere,…
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December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Everyone knows about the crater.
Fewer people know what happened to sunlight after the impact.
That missing detail changes everything about the extinction.
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Fewer people know what happened to sunlight after the impact.
That missing detail changes everything about the extinction.
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Reposted by Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
This reminds me that I get into growing fungi this winter in preparation for the spring.
I'm finna have a rejuvenated ecosystem in my backyard
I'm finna have a rejuvenated ecosystem in my backyard
December 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This reminds me that I get into growing fungi this winter in preparation for the spring.
I'm finna have a rejuvenated ecosystem in my backyard
I'm finna have a rejuvenated ecosystem in my backyard
Sixty-six million years ago, Earth went dark… and fungi took over.
For a short time after the asteroid impact, the planet became a giant decomposing world where fungi were the main winners.
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For a short time after the asteroid impact, the planet became a giant decomposing world where fungi were the main winners.
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When Fungi Took Over Earth #paleontology #extinction #fungi
Did you know that after a massive "meteor impact" led to the "extinction of dinosaurs", the planet entered a unique phase in "earth history"? This video explores how "fungi" briefly dominated the…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sixty-six million years ago, Earth went dark… and fungi took over.
For a short time after the asteroid impact, the planet became a giant decomposing world where fungi were the main winners.
🧪 #SciComm
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For a short time after the asteroid impact, the planet became a giant decomposing world where fungi were the main winners.
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After the asteroid killed the dinosaurs, almost every plant vanished.
But the very next layer of rock is packed with fern spores.
Ferns spread fast, tolerated low light, and stabilized the battered soil.
Thanks, Ferns!
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But the very next layer of rock is packed with fern spores.
Ferns spread fast, tolerated low light, and stabilized the battered soil.
Thanks, Ferns!
🧪 #SciComm
How Ferns Became Earth's Survivors #extinction #climatehistory
Did you know that after the **asteroid** impact that wiped out the **dinosaurs**, plant **biodiversity** on Earth collapsed, especially at the **kt boundary**? This video explores how almost all…
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December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
After the asteroid killed the dinosaurs, almost every plant vanished.
But the very next layer of rock is packed with fern spores.
Ferns spread fast, tolerated low light, and stabilized the battered soil.
Thanks, Ferns!
🧪 #SciComm
But the very next layer of rock is packed with fern spores.
Ferns spread fast, tolerated low light, and stabilized the battered soil.
Thanks, Ferns!
🧪 #SciComm
Why did birds survive the asteroid impact when every other dinosaur vanished?
The real answer isn’t speed or intelligence or “better flight.”
It’s a much more interesting story of size, diet, ecology, and pure luck
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The real answer isn’t speed or intelligence or “better flight.”
It’s a much more interesting story of size, diet, ecology, and pure luck
🧪 #SciComm
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Why Birds Survived The Asteroid Impact When Other Dinosaurs Didn’t?
How tiny, flexible dinosaurs slipped through a narrow ecological gap after Earth’s most catastrophic extinction When I teach about the end-Cretaceous extinction, I like to...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Why did birds survive the asteroid impact when every other dinosaur vanished?
The real answer isn’t speed or intelligence or “better flight.”
It’s a much more interesting story of size, diet, ecology, and pure luck
🧪 #SciComm
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The real answer isn’t speed or intelligence or “better flight.”
It’s a much more interesting story of size, diet, ecology, and pure luck
🧪 #SciComm
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66 million years ago, the asteroid didn’t just make a big crater; it turned Earth dark and freezing.
For months to years, sunlight collapsed, photosynthesis almost stopped, and food webs began to fail.
This “impact winter” was the real dinosaur killer.
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For months to years, sunlight collapsed, photosynthesis almost stopped, and food webs began to fail.
This “impact winter” was the real dinosaur killer.
🧪 #SciComm
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Earth Froze for Years and Life Almost Ended #asteroidimpact
Did you know that the ancient meteor impact 66 million years ago caused a global catastrophe? This event created a dark earth and a global freeze, leading to a long winter where life struggled to…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
66 million years ago, the asteroid didn’t just make a big crater; it turned Earth dark and freezing.
For months to years, sunlight collapsed, photosynthesis almost stopped, and food webs began to fail.
This “impact winter” was the real dinosaur killer.
🧪 #SciComm
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For months to years, sunlight collapsed, photosynthesis almost stopped, and food webs began to fail.
This “impact winter” was the real dinosaur killer.
🧪 #SciComm
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A meteorite wiped out almost every dinosaur… except the birds.
So what made them the only survivors?
Two traits, backed by fossil and ecological evidence, gave certain lineages a fighting chance during the long, dark impact winter.
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So what made them the only survivors?
Two traits, backed by fossil and ecological evidence, gave certain lineages a fighting chance during the long, dark impact winter.
🧪 #SciComm
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Why Birds Survived But Dinosaurs Didn't #dinosaur #extinction #evolution
Did you know that a massive "meteor impact" led to the "extinction" of most "dinosaurs", yet birds survived? This video explores surprising "animal facts" about how their unique traits, like size and…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A meteorite wiped out almost every dinosaur… except the birds.
So what made them the only survivors?
Two traits, backed by fossil and ecological evidence, gave certain lineages a fighting chance during the long, dark impact winter.
🧪 #SciComm
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So what made them the only survivors?
Two traits, backed by fossil and ecological evidence, gave certain lineages a fighting chance during the long, dark impact winter.
🧪 #SciComm
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252 million years ago, Earth faced its worst extinction.
Now scientists have found the same chemical signals in rocks from Iran and South China, nearly 5,000 km apart.
The message is clear: the end-Permian crisis wasn’t local chaos. It was one connected planetary event.
🧪 #SciComm
Now scientists have found the same chemical signals in rocks from Iran and South China, nearly 5,000 km apart.
The message is clear: the end-Permian crisis wasn’t local chaos. It was one connected planetary event.
🧪 #SciComm
The 5,000-Kilometer Echo of Earth’s Worst Extinction
How matching chemical signals in two distant ancient oceans show the end-Permian crisis was a single, connected planetary event. A team of scientists collects samples...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
252 million years ago, Earth faced its worst extinction.
Now scientists have found the same chemical signals in rocks from Iran and South China, nearly 5,000 km apart.
The message is clear: the end-Permian crisis wasn’t local chaos. It was one connected planetary event.
🧪 #SciComm
Now scientists have found the same chemical signals in rocks from Iran and South China, nearly 5,000 km apart.
The message is clear: the end-Permian crisis wasn’t local chaos. It was one connected planetary event.
🧪 #SciComm
Polar bears, moose… and camels?
Yep. A giant camel lived in the Canadian Arctic 3.5 million years ago.
It belonged to Paracamelus, a North American lineage that reached 78°N when the Arctic was a forest.
The full story is wild
🧪 #SciComm
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Yep. A giant camel lived in the Canadian Arctic 3.5 million years ago.
It belonged to Paracamelus, a North American lineage that reached 78°N when the Arctic was a forest.
The full story is wild
🧪 #SciComm
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Arctic Camels Existed and Then Vanished #shorts #animals
Did you know that camels originally evolved in North America, with a surprising camel history that includes arctic dwelling? This video explores the fascinat...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Polar bears, moose… and camels?
Yep. A giant camel lived in the Canadian Arctic 3.5 million years ago.
It belonged to Paracamelus, a North American lineage that reached 78°N when the Arctic was a forest.
The full story is wild
🧪 #SciComm
youtube.com/shorts/wRpYx...
Yep. A giant camel lived in the Canadian Arctic 3.5 million years ago.
It belonged to Paracamelus, a North American lineage that reached 78°N when the Arctic was a forest.
The full story is wild
🧪 #SciComm
youtube.com/shorts/wRpYx...
Some mammals shrank by about 30 percent during rapid warming 56 million years ago.
A new look at early horses, primates, and artiodactyls shows it happened more than once.
The fossil record keeps surprising us.
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A new look at early horses, primates, and artiodactyls shows it happened more than once.
The fossil record keeps surprising us.
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Mammals Shrunk When the Planet Heated #fossil #evolution #climatehistory
Did you know that ancient global warming events caused some mammals to shrink? Studies of **fossils** reveal a consistent pattern where body size decreased during periods of rapid **climate change**.…
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December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some mammals shrank by about 30 percent during rapid warming 56 million years ago.
A new look at early horses, primates, and artiodactyls shows it happened more than once.
The fossil record keeps surprising us.
🧪 #SciComm
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A new look at early horses, primates, and artiodactyls shows it happened more than once.
The fossil record keeps surprising us.
🧪 #SciComm
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