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Until new research revealed they actually evolved, driven by what they least expected!
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Until new research revealed they actually evolved, driven by what they least expected!
🧪 #SciComm
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Tiny micrometeorites melt as they fall through our atmosphere, grab oxygen from the air, cool, and lock that signature inside.
This could give us real samples of ancient air.
Wild.
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Tiny micrometeorites melt as they fall through our atmosphere, grab oxygen from the air, cool, and lock that signature inside.
This could give us real samples of ancient air.
Wild.
🧪 #SciComm
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The ocean's apex predator was killed by its own success. Here's the shocking science behind why being the biggest can make you the most vulnerable
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The ocean's apex predator was killed by its own success. Here's the shocking science behind why being the biggest can make you the most vulnerable
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Here's the mind-blowing science behind the Carnian Pluvial Episode that changed everything:
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Here's the mind-blowing science behind the Carnian Pluvial Episode that changed everything:
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Scientists finally think they know why: tiny plankton, oxygen & phosphorus flipped Earth’s thermostat into overdrive.
Watch the story:
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Scientists finally think they know why: tiny plankton, oxygen & phosphorus flipped Earth’s thermostat into overdrive.
Watch the story:
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But humans now release CO₂ 200x faster than those ancient eruptions
It's not about total amounts, it's about speed.
Volcanoes: 0.02-0.13 gigatons/year
Humans: 36 gigatons/year
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But humans now release CO₂ 200x faster than those ancient eruptions
It's not about total amounts, it's about speed.
Volcanoes: 0.02-0.13 gigatons/year
Humans: 36 gigatons/year
🧪 #SciComm
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Some grains survive and trap oxygen from our air inside them.
Scientists just found 4 still holding that oxygen after tens or even hundreds of millions of years.
Every shooting star writes our planet’s story.
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Some grains survive and trap oxygen from our air inside them.
Scientists just found 4 still holding that oxygen after tens or even hundreds of millions of years.
Every shooting star writes our planet’s story.
🧪 #SciComm
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Siberian Traps (252 million years ago): 0.02–0.13 gigatons of CO₂ per year, over ~300,000–500,000 years
Humans today: ~36 gigatons per year
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Siberian Traps (252 million years ago): 0.02–0.13 gigatons of CO₂ per year, over ~300,000–500,000 years
Humans today: ~36 gigatons per year
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5.7hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭 🧪
Siril, GraXpert, Starnet, GIMP
5.7hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭 🧪
Siril, GraXpert, Starnet, GIMP
It happened 360 million years ago.
It happened 280 million years ago (→ the biggest mass extinction).
Today, we're releasing carbon faster than ancient volcanoes.
The rhythm is breaking again. 🌍
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It happened 360 million years ago.
It happened 280 million years ago (→ the biggest mass extinction).
Today, we're releasing carbon faster than ancient volcanoes.
The rhythm is breaking again. 🌍
🧪 #SciComm
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The result: climate chaos, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction.
Today, we're running the same experiment, but faster.
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The result: climate chaos, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction.
Today, we're running the same experiment, but faster.
🧪 #SciComm
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84% of coral reefs worldwide just crossed a tipping point. If we don't act, 99% could be gone by 2050.
But there's still time to change this story.
🧪 #SciComm
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84% of coral reefs worldwide just crossed a tipping point. If we don't act, 99% could be gone by 2050.
But there's still time to change this story.
🧪 #SciComm
youtube.com/shorts/FGHTn...
People wanted the full story.
Here it is: how organisms smaller than your fingernail transformed a barren planet through cooperation, 410 million years before humans existed.
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People wanted the full story.
Here it is: how organisms smaller than your fingernail transformed a barren planet through cooperation, 410 million years before humans existed.
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What it had instead: fungi and algae working together as lichens, quietly breaking down rock and building the first real soils.
They prepared the planet for everything that came after. Including us
New study, new perspective 🌱
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What it had instead: fungi and algae working together as lichens, quietly breaking down rock and building the first real soils.
They prepared the planet for everything that came after. Including us
New study, new perspective 🌱
🧪 #SciComm
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Yes, we've updated the Climate Ages logo!
Can you guess what it represents?!
Let me know in the comments!
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Yes, we've updated the Climate Ages logo!
Can you guess what it represents?!
Let me know in the comments!
🧪 #SciComm
I think I’m in a love affair with silence.
I think I’m in a love affair with silence.
Millions of years ago, coral reefs collapsed as the planet overheated
And now, it’s happening once more.
Fossils reveal both warning and hope: reefs can recover, but only if we slow change enough to let them.
🧪 #SciComm
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Millions of years ago, coral reefs collapsed as the planet overheated
And now, it’s happening once more.
Fossils reveal both warning and hope: reefs can recover, but only if we slow change enough to let them.
🧪 #SciComm
🎥 Watch or read:
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Ancient reefs collapsed, adapted, and recovered.
Can we help them do it again? 🌊
🎥 Watch:
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Ancient reefs collapsed, adapted, and recovered.
Can we help them do it again? 🌊
🎥 Watch:
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What kind of stories would you be most excited to watch or learn more about at the intersection of climate change, paleontology, ecology, and conservation?
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What kind of stories would you be most excited to watch or learn more about at the intersection of climate change, paleontology, ecology, and conservation?
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3yo: Mom! Are pterosaurs dinosaurs?!
Okay, she’s yelling, but paleontology is an approved topic for interruptions.
Me: Pterosaurs? No, they’re not dinosaurs!
3yo: Okay! (runs out)
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3yo: Mom! Are pterosaurs dinosaurs?!
Okay, she’s yelling, but paleontology is an approved topic for interruptions.
Me: Pterosaurs? No, they’re not dinosaurs!
3yo: Okay! (runs out)
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A new study (de Oliveira Caetano et al., 2025) created a tool to predict which species could struggle most as the planet warms.
Reptiles may face the toughest future.
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A new study (de Oliveira Caetano et al., 2025) created a tool to predict which species could struggle most as the planet warms.
Reptiles may face the toughest future.
🧪 #SciComm
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What Happened to Earth's Landscapes When Dinosaurs Disappeared
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What Happened to Earth's Landscapes When Dinosaurs Disappeared
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Rivers shifted. Forests exploded. Landscapes changed forever
Now, our giants (elephants, rhinos, the engineers of today) are disappearing too.
Watch or read the first Climate Ages episode:
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Rivers shifted. Forests exploded. Landscapes changed forever
Now, our giants (elephants, rhinos, the engineers of today) are disappearing too.
Watch or read the first Climate Ages episode:
🧪 #SciComm
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126,000 years ago, a rock hyrax dragged its rear across sand in South Africa.
Those grooves became stone.
It’s hilarious AND scientifically important
showing us how extinct species behaved in daily life. 🦴
🧪 #SciComm
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126,000 years ago, a rock hyrax dragged its rear across sand in South Africa.
Those grooves became stone.
It’s hilarious AND scientifically important
showing us how extinct species behaved in daily life. 🦴
🧪 #SciComm
youtube.com/shorts/ykHKc...