March 15, 2021 at 8:00 am
Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull suggests that these hefty reptiles may have been relatively speedy.
“This contradicts what we knew about anteosaurs before,” says Ashley Kruger, a paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Based on the reptiles’ size, which was around that of today’s hippos or rhinos, researchers had pegged the Permian Period predators as sluggish beasts that waited to ambush prey. The skull of an
Anteosaurus magnificus appears to tell a different story.
Fossil fuels stand accused of death, destruction, deception, denial, and dishonesty.
They are dirty and disagreeable, but they became deities that we worshipped for decades.
They divide our nation – for some of us (especially Albertans) they are angelic, others (especially climatologists) regard them as demons.
Fossil fuels finance tremendous wealth for the few, a dependable provider of dividends. Just 100 fossil fuel producing companies and their investors have been the source of more than 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.
Last year, Oxfam issued a reportconfirming that the richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity.
Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta
WINDHOEK, Namibia, February 1, 2021 (ENS) – The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari Desert of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a petroleum reservoir. If the search by Canadian oil and gas company ReconAfrica is successful, the region could be irrevocably transmogrified by networks of access roads, truck traffic and heavy machinery, pipelines, drill rigs and hundreds of oil and gas production wells.
ReconAfrica’s oil and gas prospecting concessions border the Kavango River for a distance of some 150 kilometers (93 miles). This river is a crucial source of water in a semi-arid area and the lifeline for one of Africa’s greatest concentrations of wild species in the Okavango Delta into which it discharges.
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Traces of new prehistoric reptiles found in Alps
4m long crocodile-like creature survived mass extinction
14 Gennaio 2021
MILAN, JAN 14 - Fossil traces of new kinds of large
prehistoric reptiles similar to crocodiles have been found in
the Italian Alps.
The traces were found at an altitude of 2,200 metres in the
western Alps by a team that published its findings in the Peer J
journal.
Found in the Altopiano della Gardetta in the province of Cuneo,
they date from a few million years after the greatest mass
destruction of dinosaurs in history, the geologists and
palaeontologists said.
They said the findings show that the area was not totally