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Lava fingerprinting reveals differences between Hawaii's twin volcanoes

Hawaii's main volcano chains - the Loa and Kea trends - have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems connecting them to the Earth's deep mantle, according to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience, in conjunction with researchers at the universities of Hawaii and Massachusetts…



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This is a reconstruction of cat-sized stem dinosaur Prorotodactylus sp. found in Stryczowice, Poland that was a quadruped with a dinosaur-like gait and orientation of the toes, (c) Grzegorz NiedzwiedzkiOldest evidence of dinosaurs found in Polish footprints

The oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage - fossilised tracks - is described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society…

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