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Reading the tale of an ancient river

Ocean-floor sediment near England holds material deposited during the last ice age by what was then Europe's largest river system.

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1. Amazon River reversed flow
   10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Ask any South American dinosaur which way the Amazon River flows and she would have told you east-to-west, the opposite of today. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers studying ancient mineral grains buried in the Amazon Basin.
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2. Tree rings tell tale of megadroughts
   06-23-2007 · Science News Online
   Tree rings in ancient timber show that the Colorado Plateau experienced a 60-year drought in the 12th century.
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3. Flow West, Young River: Ancient Amazon ran opposite today's route
   11-04-2006 · Science News Online
   The forerunner of the mighty Amazon ran from east to west, a new analysis of rocks laid down by that ancient river suggests.
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4. AGU Journal Highlights -- June 7, 2007
   06-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
   In this issue: Climate change imperils Venice Lagoon, Bright lights sketch sprites, Eastern Amazon belches methane, Warm waters flood an Arctic shelf, Human influence may strongly accelerate oceanic planetary waves, Volcanoes mechanically interact, Ancient Mediterranean Sea level variation, Evaluating river discharge from space, Air pollutant scrutinized over Japan, Southern Ocean simulation, Energy descends in North Atlantic, Amazon magnetism illuminates early Earth, From neural networks to sea temperature maps, Megadrought in ancient Colorado River basin.
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5. Ancient hot spell is linked to copious carbon dioxide
   10-14-2006 · Science News Online
   A mineral that formed in some lakes during a lengthy and particularly warm period in Earth's past suggests that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were at that time at least triple those found in today's air.
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6. Ancient predator had strongest bite of any fish, rivaling bite of large alligators and T. rex
   11-28-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Dunkleosteus terrelli may have been the world's first apex predator. The force of its bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds. The bladed dentition of this 400-million-year-old extinct fish focused the bite force into a small area, the fang tip, at an incredible force of 80,000 pounds per square inch. This is the strongest bite force of any fish ever, and rivals the bite of large alligators and T. rex.
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7. Paleontologists discover most primitive primate skeleton
   01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The earliest branches of primate evolution are more ancient by 10 million years than previous studies estimated, according to an article featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers reconstructed the base of the primate family tree by comparing skeletal and fossil specimens representing more than 85 modern and extinct species. The team also discovered two 56-million-year-old fossils, including the most primitive primate skeleton ever described.
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8. Math Trek: Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles
   03-03-2007 · Science News Online
   Medieval Islamic artisans developed a process for creating elaborate, nonrepeating patterns now associated with Penrose tiles.
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9. Ancient coral reef tells the history of Kenya's soil erosion
   04-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Stanford University scientist Robert B. Dunbar. In a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, Dunbar and his colleagues used coral samples from the Indian Ocean to create a 300-year record of soil erosion in Kenya.
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10. Ancient wooden anchor discovered
    05-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
    The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe -- the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai, by researchers from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies of the University of Haifa. The anchor, from the end of the 7th century BC, was found near a submerged construction, imbedded approximately.1.5 meters underground.
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