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Record Shows Ancient Temperature Variations Coinciding With Shifts in the Planet’s Biodiversity – SciTechDaily

Geologists Produce New Timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic Climate Changes The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists…

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A finger points to a small trilobite fossil from the Ordovician strata in Svalbard, Norway. Credit: Adam Jost
Geologists Produce New Timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic Climate Changes
The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth’s temperature during the early Paleozoic era, between 510 and 440 million years ago — a pivotal period when animals became abundant in a previously microbe-dominated world.

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