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In a First, Scientists Witness the Seafloor Spread in Real Time, Giving Them a Rare Glimpse at a Mysterious Geologic Process
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (376+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Earth’s outermost layer—the crust—is constantly renewing itself. It’s broken into giant chunks called tectonic plates that pull apart, push against or slide past one another, creating grand geologic features. Underwater mountain ranges, or mid-ocean…...
Meet the Earliest Known 'Right-Handed' Animal, a Worm-Like Creature That Lived About 550 Million Years Ago
2+ mon, 19+ hour ago (390+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent A tiny critter that lived around 550 million years ago might represent the first known sign of right-handedness in animals—despite not having any hands. “As soon as you get something that has a left and a…...
East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought—and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (517+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent called Pangea. But the planet’s shifting outer layer—the crust—eventually broke it apart, according to the well-established scientific theory…...
When Did the Earth's Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (411+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sara Hashemi - Daily Correspondent The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces…...
Earth's Core Might Hold Dozens of Oceans Worth of Hydrogen, Hinting at the Origins of the Planet's Vast Water Supply
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (231+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Mary Randolph - Freelance contributor Ocean water covers roughly 71 percent of Earth’s surface and contains about 321 million cubic miles of water. Some 4.6 billion years ago, gas, rocks and dust clumped together to form Earth. In the baby…...