Thawing ice makes the Alps grow

3D ice-model of the Alps during Last Glacial Maximum (Figure: Jürgen Mey, University of Potsdam, background model based on ESRI Germany data). The Alps are steadily “growing” by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to […]

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Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event

View of the Palacio de los Loros 2 fossil plant locality in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. The locality was deposited in the early Paleocene around 64 million years ago. Image: Peter Wilf / Penn State   Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that […]

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