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All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming

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All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming

There have been five particularly large extinction events in Earth’s history, and for the first time all of them have been linked to global warming

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

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Plate tectonics may have started on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

Earth

Plate tectonics may have started on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

Space

A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

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Putorana plateau and mountains in Siberia, Russie

Earth

Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction

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surface of Venus

Space

Strange lines on Venus may be folded stacks of lava eroded by wind

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Yutu 2

Space

China’s rover has discovered what lies beneath the moon’s far side

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See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate

Life

See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate

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Exoplanet

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Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

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Paul Smith

The adventures of a geologist: From shipwrecks to mapping the Arctic

Before directing the Oxford Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith mapped remote Greenland and was once left stranded when his ship went down

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Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Space

Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush

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Life

Forget pristine habitats - for biodiversity save abandoned quarries

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Earth

Super-deep diamonds contain traces of a pristine chunk of early Earth

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