Geologists are investigating the Nankai Trough, off Japan, in an attempt to beeter understand it’s geology and perhaps develop an early warning system for earthquakes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7353866.stm
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For a long time, geologists have wondered what trace the human race would leave in the geological record. The period is now being called the Anthropocene:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7223663.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
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It has been suggested that elephants evolved from water-loving ancestors, similar in lifestyle to modern hippos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347284.stm
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Was Antarctica the home to major volcanic eruptions in the past?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7194579.stm
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The Burgess Shale, in British Columbia, Canada, is famous for its preservation of soft bodied fossils from the Cambrian Period, when multicellular life was relatively new. It preserves an number of creatures which can be recognised as ancestors of our current biota as well as many other forms which were not successful in evolutionary terms.
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A 40 million year old spider has been dicovered by an amateur collector and donated to the Natural History Museum in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7327038.stm
Previous amber finds have uncovered much about the evolution of spiders:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5075860.stm
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