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Why Are There Whale Skeletons In The Sahara Desert? Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt.

Did you know that there are massive whale skeletons under the sand in the Egyptian Sahara desert? Approximately 37 million years ago these incredible prehistoric creatures swam around in the Tethys Ocean at what is today the dry and windy … Continue reading

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How Baboons Led Us to a Lost Civilization

[…] Everyone knows where Punt is, right? The Ancient Egyptians sure did — they traded with them for millennia. But apparently they were so familiar with its location, they never bothered to write it down for posterity. So archaeologists have … Continue reading

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These weird footprints 👣 rewrite the history of North America

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Bendable Rocks Are Weird

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The Earthquake That Lasted Two Centuries

From an Australian fire that’s been continually burning for millennia, to earthquakes that shake the ground for centuries, here are four natural disasters that lasted way longer than you might have expected. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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The Human Genome Project Was a Failure

[…] Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! / scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ———- Huge thanks … Continue reading

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Where IS all the oxygen?

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Google Doodle honors César Lattes, Brazilian physicist who discovered a long-sought particle hidden in cosmic rays | Livescience

  By Ben Turner The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars. The … Continue reading

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An Ocean Mixing Mystery

[…] How do the layers of the ocean mix together? The energy put in by the winds and tides is less than what’s required for the amount of mixing, so what else is bringing the mixing energy? Turns out, it … Continue reading

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