Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen estimate that seagrasses have released 32 billion Coke cans-worth of sugar into the soil.
When conservation ecologist Rob Harcourt went surfing off the coast of Sydney, Australia, he immediately knew the water was warmer than usual. “We had at least 23 [degrees Celsius, or 73° Fahrenheit] sea surface temperature,” Harcourt, a professor at Macquarie University, told Mongabay. “It’s normally about 18[°C, or 64°F] in November, December. So that’s 4 […]
The Middle Ages have yielded a series of amazing archaeological discoveries, from medieval swords to buried castle remains to evidence of zombie fears.
A large number of 56 million-year-old fish fossils were discovered in an eastern Egyptian desert, showcasing that they were able to exist in seas with temperatures approaching 95 degrees Fahrenheit.