#palaeogene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palaeogene, aggregated by home.social.
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Findings in #Hokkaido show #squid dominated the #ocean by 100mya. They’d previously been thought not to flourish until the #Palaeogene, 65mya.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ancient-squids-dominated-ocean-million.html #science #marine #biology #MarineBiology #paleogene #palaeontology #paleontology #cephalopods
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The #Chicxulub Impactor—the #asteroid that killed the #dinosaurs—had a smaller companion, which formed the #Nadir Crater off the coast of west #Africa and caused an 800m high #tsunami to sweep across the Atlantic: https://bbc.com/news/articles/c62m04v0k0no #science #astronomy #geology #palaeontology #paleontology #cretaceous #palaeogene #paleogene #extinction