This amazing image, taken using a drone in Lake Cakora, Australia, shows tea tree oil seeping into the lake’s drainage channels to create an arboreal pattern Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933201-900-nature-and-tech-create-a-tree-of-life-at-australias-lake-cakora/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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2 of Darwin’s famous notebooks, including iconic ‘Tree of Life’ sketch, are missing
Two notebooks Darwin filled after his HMS Beagle expedition are missing, possibly stolen. Source: https://www.livescience.com/darwin-lost-stolen-notebooks.html
Ancient life signs under dinosaur-killing Chicxulub crater
Researchers have found evidence for an ancient microbial ecosystem in a hydrothermal system beneath Mexico’s Chicxulub Crater, thought to be the site of the impact that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/dinosaur-killing-chicxulub-impact-crater-hydrothermal-microbial…
Chaco Canyon’s famous ‘tree of life’ might have just been a bench
New research reveals that the “Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito,” once thought to be a living “tree of life,” may have been just a big, dead tree that came from somewhere else. Source: https://www.livescience.com/chaco-canyon-famous-tree-of-life-mystery.html
This extinct horned turtle was the size of a car
Recently-discovered fossils shed new light on an enormous horned turtle that roamed South America 5 to 10 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/extinct-horned-turtle-size-car…
The mysterious microbes shifting humanity’s place in the tree of life
Puzzling, slow-living microbes named after Loki, the trickster of Norse mythology, are helping solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: the origin of complex life Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532670-900-the-mysterious-microbes-shifting-humanitys-place-in-the-tree-of-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…