Feathers turn out to be surprisingly complicated. First, there’s the question of which animals have feathers. For centuries, people thought feathers were unique to birds. Now we know this isn’t true.
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Melting ice sheets and sea level rise aren’t the only threats from climate change. Glaciers are also shrinking at a rapid rate. These glaciers supply water for millions of people around the globe, so
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Construction workers in Marseille, Summer 2006. Claude Paris/AP
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Large dinosaurs like T. Rex are the most famous creatures that went extinct some 65 million years ago. But a wide range of other species also perished around the same time.
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How do we contribute to global warming? In most parts of the world, when we use energy, we produce CO2 emissions.
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Researchers have long wondered about the purpose of such peculiar features. Perhaps some served to protect the animal in battle. Others might have helped a dinosaur stay cool. More recently, scientist
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„Atmosphere,“ „biofuels,“ „carbon dioxide“—challenge students to spell out their climate change knowledge from A to Z.
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Luckily for scientists, the environment of eastern Asia 130 million years ago was well-suited to preserving fossils.
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Sometimes tracks are readable… and sometimes they’re not. The texture of the ground surface and the number of animals that passed by are among the things affecting our ability to interpret what was
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An ice core model in the exhibition is based on a real core from Greenland that is over 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) long. Cores drilled from Greenland’s thick ice cap faithfully record the local climate
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