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Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects. Throughout Earth’s history, the planet has been struck by multiple asteroids, ...

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Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor, which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 65 ...

In the 1800s, miners found beautifully preserved fossils of animals from the Eocene. In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting ...

When Congress convened its first meeting on the IPCC's report on climate change in 2007, Dana Rohrabacher - the Republican representative of California's 46th district - floated a rather unusual idea.

Throughout Earth's history, the planet has been struck by multiple asteroids, some so large, like the Chicxulub Impactor, that Earth's climate was altered to the point of a mass extinction event.