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A new Stanford led study has provided the strongest evidence yet for why some marine animals survived Earth’s largest mass extinction while many others disappeared forever. The findings not only explain how modern ocean ecosystems came to be, but also offer a cautionary glimpse of how today’s warming oceans could affect marine life. Roughly 252…

A rare fossil goose discovered in the remains of an ancient lake in Central Otago is changing scientists’ understanding of how New Zealand’s unique bird life evolved. According to researchers from the University of Otago — Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the find adds to growing evidence that the origins of Aotearoa’s birds were far more dynamic…

For the first time ever, astronomers have found two sibling stars that each exploded as supernovas, gaining a new view of these epochal cosmic cataclysms submitted by /u/scientificamerican [comments]

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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the most intensely studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The young, nearby star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first…