The 500 million year old shrimp-like Urokodia had pincer-like limbs emerging next to its eyes.
- Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
A homogeneidade é apenas uma faceta das mudanças provocadas pelos seres humanos na tapeçaria da vida da Terra.
Just one of the many ways the Anthropocene is reshaping life on Earth.
Such massive disruptions have in the past been caused by volcanoes or meteorites. Only humans have done this with full awareness of their actions.
The Anthropocene began quickly, but will last deep into the geological future.
El escenario de ciencia ficción de un planeta fabricado por el hombre ya está aquí.
The science-fiction scenario of an engineered planet is already here.
Exceptionally well preserved 500m year old fossils show Cambrian seas were more diverse than scientists had thought.
Dans quelques millions d’années, les os des poulets témoigneront de l’époque où les humains dominaient le monde.
Our research shows that, millions of years from now, fossilised chicken bones will mark the era of human domination.
What can we expect from our future climate after looking at the ‘Hothouse Earths’ of the past?
New findings from the Chagos Islands are a perfect parable for the Anthropocene.
We’re in a new geological era, say scientists.
Human beings don’t merely inhabit the world. They alter it, on an increasingly epic scale. It is said that we now live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which geology and climate are controlled as much…
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