Meanwhile, 100 renowned photographers have united to raise money for ocean conservation by selling some of their most stunning images of water-related scenes, including an emperor penguin in midair, a manatee and her calf, and seahorses at night.
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Now, a series of dives to the patch have revealed that translucent creatures like violet sea snails and jellyfish relatives known as blue buttons and sea rafts also call the mass of trash their home.
Denis Riek/GO-SEAįor decades, currents have swirled bits of plastic and trash that have accumulated into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 620,000-square-mile (1,605,792-square-kilometer) mass in the ocean between California and Hawaii.īut so much marine life has found a way to thrive there that the patch is a floating ecosystem. Separately, the James Webb Space Telescope just detected an intriguing water vapor signature in a planetary system located 26 light-years away, and it might be a sign of what would be the first-known atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet.Ī blue button is a colony of polyps that floats on the ocean's surface. This planetary demise was something of a preview for Earth’s eventual fate in 5 billion years, when our sun is expected to engulf multiple planets as it dies. The noninvasive technique the study team developed to extract DNA could also be used to learn more about early humans and Neanderthals, who left behind more tools and ornaments than fossils.Īstronomers for the first time ever were able to see the exact moment that a dying star swallowed a planet.Īs the star experienced its death throes, it swelled to a million times its size and released a white-hot flash observed by researchers as it devoured a Jupiter-size gas giant.
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The pendant, found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, was porous enough to absorb and retain the genetic material from skin cells and sweat. The groundbreaking analysis by a team of European researchers marks the first time scientists have successfully isolated ancient human DNA from a Stone Age artifact. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyĪ deer tooth pendant has revealed details about the woman who wore it between 19,000 and 25,000 years ago. The pierced deer tooth was likely worn as a pendant 25,000 years ago.
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