Sentences with phrase «about ancient lakes»

Ancient lake could have held life, rover team says The scientists behind the Curiosity rover mission on Mars have fleshed out their findings about an ancient lake that they now say apparently had everything needed to sustain microbes that can live off minerals.

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Using ancient DNA, along with the remains of pollen, plants, and animals collected from lake sediments, a new study has an answer: about 12,600 years ago.

Although scientists can learn about past climate by examining ancient lake sediments, in the Sahara the lakes dried up long ago and their sediments have blown away.

Scientists had assumed that a series of ancient lakes once scattered from Kansas to North Dakota were largely alkaline, because of the large quantities of salt found in the area's sandy reddish rocks that were formed when the lake evaporated about 270 million years ago.

Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

That is as much as all other lakes and seas on ancient Mars combined and about nine times more than the combined volume of all of North America's Great Llakes and seas on ancient Mars combined and about nine times more than the combined volume of all of North America's Great LakesLakes.

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

Recently, scientists concluded from evidence in Mars's ancient lake on Gale crater that the planet once harbored a very Earth - like environment for about 700,000 years sometime between 3.1 and 3.8 billion years ago.

The comparison suggests that the ancestors of Ancient Beringians and those of other Native Americans descended from a single founding population that first split from East Asians around 36,000 years ago, although gene flow with North Eurasians — possibly centered around Lake Baikal in southern Siberia — continued until about 25,000 years ago.

The Scoobies arrive at their abattoir and promptly get naked enough to swim in the lake while, far beneath them in a secret underground bunker, pocket - shirts Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford) push levers, pull switches, and reveal that the whole movie is about the manipulation of an annual blood ritual sacrifice meant to appease Ancient Gods living in the abyss.

The tour is about 1 hr short hike on a very ancient mayan trail, with stunning vistas of the Lake, volcanoes and birds!

Scenic Highlights: Encounter unique wildlife in Paracas National Park and the Ballestas Islands, learn about Arequipa's renowned regional cuisine with a cooking class by a local chef, explore the Cusco Planetarium, walk through ancient ruins and local villages in the Sacred Valley, take in stunning views on the train to Machu Picchu, visit the Luquina community and have lunch on Lake Titicaca

I have done lots of research and reading about Guatemala and everything about the country appeals to me — from the prominent indigenous Mayan culture, the fascinating history, charming and colourful colonial towns and cities, incredible ancient Mayan ruins, to the stunningly beautiful and diverse landscapes (including rain forests, volcanoes, mountains, lakes, and more).

I also thought about the ancient burial grounds that are scattered around Falköping and Västergötland, but then our friends mentioned Lake Hornborgasjön.