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Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead. A study of exceptionally preserved fossils led by a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin has found that rising global temperatures and a rapidly changing climate 183 million years ago may have created fossilisation conditions in the world’s oceans that helped preserve the soft and delicate bodies of deceased marine animals. The fossils include squid-like vampyropods with ink sacs, ornate crustacean claws and fish with intact gills and eye tissue. Despite being from different locations and marine environments, the fossils…
Rome Reborn 4.0, a digital model of Ancient Rome has just been released by archaeologist, Dr Bernard Frischer. Published by Flyover Zone, the model is a reconstruction of the entire city of Ancient Rome for academic study and virtual tourism. Rome Reborn provides a birds-eye perspective of the complete digital model, enabling users to glide above the historic landmarks while listening to expert narrations about 43 monuments, temples, structures, and locations. Dr Frischer said, “Rome Reborn 4.0 is the culmination of more than twenty-seven years of collaborative international work in using digital tools to research cultural history and bring it…
‘Archaeological nirvana’ has been unearthed in ‘Britain’s Pompeii’, a stilt village occupied for less than a year before it burnt out, over a tragic summer day 2,850 years ago. As flames engulfed their homes, inhabitants fled, abandoning their possessions to the fire’s fury. In a blaze that consumed the tightly clustered roundhouses, constructed merely nine months earlier from wood, straw, turf, and clay, the community of 50 to 60 odd people at Must Farm faced devastation. Must Farm, a late Bronze Age settlement dating back to around 850 BC, has been meticulously unearthed by archaeologists from the University of Cambridge. The culmination of…
SEC Chair Gary Gensler signals that disclosure will be a key issue in the year ahead Source: www.cnbc.com
The original Mercedes-Benz G-Class stuck around for four decades and was given multiple updates over the years to keep it fresh before a full redesign for the 2019 model year. It’s not clear how long Mercedes plans to keep the current second-generation G-Class on the shelf before giving it a redesign, but the automaker will at least give the vehicle periodic updates in similar fashion to its predecessor. The first of these updates was revealed on Monday and affects both the regular G-Class and the high-performance G 63 from AMG. The updated range will be introduced in the U.S. for…
Ferrari recently held a competition that pitted up-and-coming designers from all around the globe to design what it described as a hypercar that takes all aspects of its design to extremes, from architecture to propulsion. While the winning entry was the Eternita created by students at Seoul’s Hongik University, second place went to the Xezri, which was penned by Samir Sadikhov. You can see his creation, visualized in the real world in this video presented by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Turin, Italy. Sadikhov is a student of the prestigious design school. His design is the last one…
McLaren is bringing its McLaren Trophy one-make race series to North America, the company announced on Thursday. The series made its debut in Europe last year and currently features dedicated race cars based on the Artura and former 570S supercar. The North American series, to be known as McLaren Trophy America, will host its inaugural season in 2025. There will be 10 races, spread across five weekends, with locations to be confirmed later this year. Each race will span 50 minutes and include mandatory pit stops for driver changes. An Artura Trophy race car will be the focus of the…
A prototype for the next generation of Audi’s Q3 compact crossover has been spotted again. It already appears to be at a late stage of development judging by the thin camouflage gear and production-bound lights fitted to the vehicle. The current second-generation Q3 arrived in 2018 as a 2019 model. The redesigned third-generation model is expected to make its debut late this year or early next, meaning it should arrive in the U.S. as a 2025 or possibly 2026 model. The new Q3 appears to feature similar proportions to the current model, which makes sense as the two vehicles will…
The final Dodge Challenger has rolled off the assembly line at Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Canada, marking the end of the long-lived V-8 muscle car and its LX platform. Completed on Dec. 22, the final car was a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 in Pitch Black, a Dodge spokesperson confirmed to Motor Authority. The automaker wouldn’t share the fate of this final car, so it’s unclear if it is a customer car or will be kept by Stellantis for posterity. The Demon 170 was the final model in a series of “Last Call” special editions built to celebrate the end…
PORTLAND, Ore. —The UConn women’s basketball dynasty proved itself alive and well at Moda Center on Monday as the No. 3 seed Huskies upset No. 1 seed USC 80-73 to advance to a Division I record 23rd Final Four under coach Geno Auriemma. After a devastating upset Sweet 16 ended UConn’s 14-year streak of Final Four appearances last season, the Huskies are returning to the final weekend of March Madness to face Albany 2 regional champion Iowa on Friday in Cleveland. UConn last advanced to the national championship game in 2022, where it finished runner-up to South Carolina. “Today was…