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Tiny fragments likely stayed in the atmosphere, possibly blocking part of the sun's ray for months or years. With less sunlight, plants and the animals dependent on them would have died, Kruk said. Furthermore, the reduced sunlight would have lowered global temperatures, impairing large active animals with high-energy needs, she said. "Smaller, omnivorous terrestrial animals, like mammals, lizards, turtles, or birds, may have been able to survive as scavengers feeding on the carcasses of dead dinosaurs,…-
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The Mesozoic era was bookended by two great extinctions, with another smaller extinction occurring at the end of the Triassic period, Olsen said. Around 252 million years ago, the end-Permian extinction wiped out most life on Earth over about 60,000 years, according to a February 2014 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). At the end of the Triassic period, roughly 201 million years ago, most amphibious creatures and crocodile-like creatures that lived in the tropics…
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Coal beds, which can be up to 11 to 12 meters thick, characterize the late Carboniferous. The forests of seedless vascular plants that existed in the tropical swamp forests of Europe and North America provided the organic material that became coal. Dead plants did not completely decay and were turned to peat in these swamp forests. When the sea covered the swamps, marine sediments covered the peat. Eventually, heat and pressure transformed these organic remains into coal. Coal balls, pockets of plant…
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As Xin continued to tell her more about the different timelines her vessel core continued to become stronger and stronger. Stronger in the sense of profoundness not in the sense of rigidity. Unaware of this Jia was devastated at this point. She couldn't ask the mysterious voice to stop cause god knows what if he gets angry and do something to her! On the other hand all her ways of escaping were closed. It was more like she didn't know how to escape. She could have escaped that place if her inner…
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At this point Xin didn't stop and continued to tell Jia about the different periods. Next on queue was the Silurian Period. Silurian Period, in geologic time, the third period of the Paleozoic Era. It began 443.8 million years ago and ended 419.2 million years ago, extending from the close of the Ordovician Period to the beginning of the Devonian Period. The Silurian lasted about 28 million years. There was a rapid recovery of biodiversity after the great extinction event at the end of the Ordovician. A…
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However, during the Proterozoic, a large evolutionary step occurred with the appearance of eukaryotes. Evolving around 2.1-1.6 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells are more complex with cell organelles and a nucleus with more complex DNA replication and regulation, mitochondria for additional energy, and chloroplasts to perform photosynthesis and produce energy. Certain organelles even have their own DNA, like mitochondria. Eukaryotes are the branch of the tree of life that gave rise to fungi, plants,…
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"You have correctly joined the chains of these novels. They all are interconnected to each othe-" Jia didn't wait for the mysterious sound to complete his sentence and asked, "But how could be that possible? Like these all happened or emerged at different time lines! And I don't think the same thing happened again and again at different time lines. Or els-" This time Xin didn't let her complete her sentence and intervened by saying, "Or else Earth would have been devoided of flora and fauna by…
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After telling Jia the last of the mythology Xin asked, "Can you find any correlation between them? Or any similarity?" Jia had already this correlation and similarity. And was just waiting for the mysterious voice to ask her. She replied with a victory winning smile on her face, "Yes, I have found the correlation between them." According to Jia there were many similarities between these mythologies. The first common thing between them was the presence of a Saviour. In the Christian mythology it was…
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Thus, when God beheld the corruption of the earth and determined to destroy it, he gave Noah divine warning of the impending disaster and made a covenant with him, promising to save him and his family. Noah was instructed to build an ark, and in accordance with God's instructions he took into the ark male and female specimens of all the world's species of animals, from which the stocks might be replenished. Consequently, according to this narrative, the entire surviving human race descended from Noah's…
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Xin didn't stop at that and told her about the Indian version of Mythology. According to which In Hinduism the universe is millions of years old. In line with the Hindu belief in reincarnation, the universe we live in is not the first or indeed the last universe. Indian religion and mythology are closely interwoven and cannot really be separated. Moreover, both are so vast and confused that any generalization is likely to oversimplify. The earliest Indian texts are the Vedas, a series of sacred hymns in…
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