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Citizen scientists identify fossils with Fossil finder

Citizen science, as you know, is sweeping the world in many fields; astronomy, climate, even cancer monitoring. Now you can have a go at spotting fossils in one of the prime sites in Africa where so many of our ancestors have been discovered.  It's led by the renowned Louise Leakey in Kenya, along with Dr Randolph Donahue and others at Bradford. Randolph’s team at Bradford University has taken aerial photographs of …

How fossil corals can shed light on Earth's past climate

Researchers have used radiocarbon measured in deep-sea fossil corals to shed light on carbon dioxide levels during Earth's last deglaciation. Fossil corals have the unique advantage that they can be precisely dated by radiometric uranium-series dating, giving an age scale that can be directly compared to the ice core records. Read the full story at Science Daily.

Could global warming lead to bigger, badder crocodiles?

Since they arrived on the scene nearly 85 million years ago, crocodiles and their relatives have often suffered when things got cool or sea levels fluctuated. The changing climatic conditions cause scores of species to go extinct. So with the world warming up, could this be a renaissance for crocodiles, reptiles that date back to the time of the dinosaurs? Read the full story at CBS News.

Starfish Wasting Disease May Be Tied to Warming Waters

"I don't know what you would call it other than catastrophic," says Drew Harvell, a biologist at Cornell University, describing what is widely regarded as one of the worst marine disease events ever recorded. "It's staggering, really, the millions of stars that have died. It is not apocalyptic or extreme to say that." Read the full story in Discovery Channel News.

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