Emmanuel Nwaodua, Ph.D.

Geologists Have, For The First Time, Animated How The Earth’s Plates Moved Relative To Each Other Over The Last Billion Years. The Geologists Spent 4 Years To Create The Animation, Using Paleomagnetism And Current Tectonic Plate Data. The Animation May Help Explain How Earth Became Habitable For Complex Creatures.

A Software Engineer, Ian Webster, Inspired By Plate Tectonics, Has Created A Map That Can Enable Anyone To “Time Travel” To The Past, Up to 750 Myrs Ago, To Find The Location Of Modern-Day Landmark Or City, With Associated Location Fossils. This Location Shift Is Because The Continents Have Been Drifting Away And Towards Each Other.

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The Recently Discovered Fossilized Tail Of The First River Dinosaur, Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus (SA), In Southern Morocco, Indicates That Dinosaurs Were Not Only Land And Air Animals, But Were Also Powerful Swimmers That Adapted Quite Well In Water. The Study Notes That SA Prowled The Rivers That Flowed Through The Sahara Desert 100 Myrs Ago. Fascinating!

The USGS, In Collaboration With NASA And The Lunar Planetary Institute, Have For The First Time Created A Detailed Map, 1:5,000,000 scale, Of The Entire Moon Surface Rock Types. The Geologic Map Is Expected To Aid Future Moon Missions And Used As A Learning Tool. The Map Was Created From Recent Satellite Missions And Historic Apollo-Era Data. Cool!!

Earth Now Has A Temporary New Mini Moon, Called 2020 CD3, Which Measures About 6 Feet To 11 Feet Across And With Orbit That Suggests It Entered Earth’s Orbit About 3 Years Ago. This Is The Second Asteroid To Be Captured By Earth’s Gravity After An Asteroid Named “2006 RH120” Was Captured In June 2006 And Stayed Until Around September 2007.

The Oldest Known Asteroid Impact Crater, “Yarrabubba Crater,” May Have Been Discovered In Australia. The Impact, Dated To 2.229 Byr, Possibly Ended The Snow Ball Earth Glacial Condition Via Water Vapour, A Green House Gas, Hurtled Into The Atmosphere. Another Implication Of This Discovery Is That Other Older Craters May Still Exist.

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Evidence Of The World Oldest Forest, A Fossilized Tree Root Dated To ~386 MYA, Was Discovered In An Abandoned Quarry In Cairo, NY, ~40 Miles South Of Albany. The Forest Is Said To Be 2-3 Myrs Older Than The Previously Discovered Forest In Gilboa, NY. This Discovery Provides A Snapshot Of Earth’s Evolution From No Forest To Being Forested.

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Many Elephants Are Held In Captivity For Research, Conservation, And Tourism. But, According To A Recent Study, Asian Elephants Held In Captivity Are Hindered In Reproduction For Over A Decade. And Calves, From Captured Females, Have Lower Survival Rates. ~16,000 Asian Elephants Are Held In Captivity In Countries Like Myanmar And India.

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A Lost 8th Continent, Greenland-sized, Has Been Discovered, Subducted 1000 Miles Under Europe. The Continent, Called “Greater Adria,” Is Said To Be The Fifth Continent Formed From Gondwana, An Offspring Of Supercontinent Pangea. Greater Adria Is Said To Have Slide Under Europe About 120 Mya, Forming Mountain Belts In What’s Now 30 European Countries.

An Extensive Sheet Of Pumice, A Very Light And Porous Volcanic Rock, From An Underwater Volcano, Near Tonga, Is Floating Towards Australia. The Pumice Sheet, About The Size Of Washington, D.C. (58 Square Miles), Could Act As A Medium For Carrying Marine Organisms To Replenish Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Cool!

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A Major Climate Regulator, The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), Is Said To Be Weakening. It’s Weaker Than It Was For 1000 Yrs. This Is Probably Due To An Increase In Fresh Water Influx As A Result Of Global Warming. Could The Next Ice Age Be On The Horizon? Only Further Studies And Time Will Tell.

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The New Find That Part Of North America, Specifically The Canadian Land Mass, Was Once Attached To Northern Australia Continues To Support The Theory Of Continental Drift At Early Time Of The Earth (1.7 Bya) During Which Continents Came Together To Form The First Super Continent, Nuna. Recall That The Earth Is ~4.5 Bya.

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Scientists May Have Confirmed, From A Recently Discovered 6 Week Old Infant’s DNA, That The Ancestors Of The Current Native Americans Mass Migrated From Siberia, Across The Bering Land Bridge (A Part Of Beringia), During The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

Alaskan infant's DNA tells story of 'first Americans' – BBC N…

How Can Some Many Things Be So Wrong With This Country, Nigeria? If It Is Not Corruption, Which Has Led To Insecurity And Slow Rate Of Development, It Is The HIV Epidemic. The Country, In 2016, Has The Second Highest HIV Epidemic. I Really Wish The News Was That The Country Ranks Second In Development.

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The 280 Ma Old Forest Discovered In Antarctica Supports The Notion That Continents Did Move, And Would Also Give Scientists An Insight On How Modern Trees Would Behave As The Climate Changes Due To Increasing Green House Gases That Is Said To Have Caused The Permian Extinction (252 Ma), During Which The Ancient Forest Evolved.

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Unlucky Dinosaurs! Based On This New Discovery, Although Questionable In Some School Of Thoughts, The Asteroid Is Said To Have Caused The Global Extinction That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs Because It Struck The Wrong Location—An Area Rich In Hydrocarbon That Gave Rise To Soots And Sulfur That Caused The Global Cooling Event.

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The Lunar Occupation Mission Is Speeding Up After The Discovery Of A Massive Tunnel That Could Potentially House A Moon Base. And Now, To Sweeten The Deal, Scientists Have Created A Solar Device That Could Generate Oxygen And Water From Lunar Sediments. Looks Like We Are Almost Set For A Lunar Colony.

Scientist devises a solar…

True That All The Proxies Point To An Imminent Eruption, Than Earlier Thought, Of The Yellowstone Super Volcano, But Wow, How Soon Is Soon?

‘Supervolcano’ could start erupting sooner than thought | New York Post

http://nypost.com/2017/10/12/supervolcano-could-start-erupting-faster-than-thought/

The supervolcano under Yel…

The Moon, About 4 Billion Years Ago, Had An Atmosphere That Lasted For Only 70 Million Years. And This Was Determine From The Gaseous Composition Of The Volcanic Moon Rock Samples Brought Back From The Apollo Mission, And Via Calculation Of How Much Of These Gaseous Compositions Rose To Form The Atmosphere.

It Turns Out That Our…

See How Geologists (Paleontologists) Used The Observations of Present Day Herbivores Like Elephants, Cows, And Herbivorous Birds To Explain The Recent Discovery Of Why Meat Was Found In The fossilized Dung Of A Giant Herbivore Dinosaur. The Present Is Truly The key To Understanding The Past.

Giant herbivore dinosaurs ate crustacean…