{"id":29499,"date":"2018-10-26T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29499"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:22:20","slug":"tiny-fossil-shells-give-clues-to-climate-on-ancient-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiny-fossil-shells-give-clues-to-climate-on-ancient-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny fossil shells give clues to climate on ancient Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/tiny-fossil-shells-unveil-details-about-ancient-earths-climate\/article23837263.ece\">Tiny fossil shells give clues to climate on ancient Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environment; earths climate; Cambrian explosion<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A new study has analyzed tiny fossil shells\u00a0to reveal clues about Earth\u2019s climate over 500 million years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The discovery as a research paper has been published in the journal <strong><em>Science Advances<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Findings suggest that animal life on earth developed 500 million years ago when the planet was likely in a <strong>\u2018greenhouse\u2019 climate interval<\/strong>. The temperatures were too high for permanent polar ice sheets to form.<\/li>\n<li>This interval in time is known as the <strong>Cambrian explosion<\/strong>&#8211; A period in which most of the major animal groups sprung into existence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cambrian period:<\/strong> It is the earliest time division of Palaeozoic Era. It marked the time when most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>The findings suggest this period, had a climate similar to that in which the dinosaurs lived.<br \/>\nScientists made the discovery after looking for clues in tiny fossil shells embedded in 510-515 million-year-old blocks of Shropshire limestone.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists had suspected that the Cambrian was a warm period in the Earth\u2019s history, but proof was lacking until now.<\/li>\n<li>In the recent study, scientists used oxygen isotope ratios as proxy data to measure sea temperature from 500 million years ago. The study indicated very warm sea temperatures ranging above 20\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Findings also indicated a well-preserved shell chemistry of the fossils as they grew on the Cambrian sea floor<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny fossil shells give clues to climate on ancient Earth Environment; earths climate; Cambrian explosion News A new study has analyzed tiny fossil shells\u00a0to reveal clues about Earth\u2019s climate over 500 million years ago. Important Facts: The discovery as a research paper has been published in the journal Science Advances Findings suggest that animal life&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiny-fossil-shells-give-clues-to-climate-on-ancient-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiny fossil shells give clues to climate on ancient Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704566215},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}