A new species of shark has been discovered in Alabama that survived the mass extinction, became one of the ocean’s top predators at that time. (Palaeohypotodus bizzocoi)
Tag: climate change
Three shipwrecks discovered off Tunisia
All three Roman ships were found off Tunisia as part of a Unesco project, a mission to protect underwater heritage.
Mudbricks are used by Iraqi archaeologists to slow erosion
Climate change has resulted in salty groundwater in Iraq’s ancient Babylon, which is corroding some of humanity’s earliest structures. Now, archaeologists are preserving locations that were previously regarded as one of the world’s wonders using low-salt mudbricks created by a local craftsman.
Plankton’s endurance to prior global warming events is revealed by the discovery of “ghost” fossils.
An multinational team of experts from the Natural History Museum, UCL (University College London), the University of Florence, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History discovered a unique sort of fossilisation that had previously gone unnoticed.
The ‘ghost’ fossils are imprints of coccolithophores, which are single-celled plankton. Their discovery is altering our understanding of how climate change affects plankton in the oceans.