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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
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I’m new to the Science feed 🧪 and loving it here.

I’m a former academic who accidentally built an 11,000+ subscriber #SciComm newsletter.

Follow for stories at the intersection of #Paleobio & #Climate
and how online networks can organically unlock new opportunities.
Scientists just recovered something inside a woolly mammoth no one thought could survive 40,000 years…
and it reveals its final moments alive.
Short below. 🧊🧬
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Did This Mammoth's Last Moments Get Frozen In Time?
We’ve sequenced mammoth DNA for years. But scientists just recovered something no one thought could survive — molecules showing what a mammoth’s cells were doing in its final moments 40,000 years…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A new method that analyzes limb proportions just added a surprising clue to the century-long Spinosaurus debate.

Did it move underwater more than we thought?
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Spinosaurus: River Monster or Shore Hunter?
New research offers fresh insights into the long-standing debate about how Spinosaurus lived, adding a crucial piece to the puzzle. Scientists have debated its lifestyle for over a century, with some…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Imagine digging into rock that should be almost lifeless…
and uncovering an entire ocean community instead.

That’s what a new discovery in the Arctic just revealed
and it’s rewriting how we think life recovers after mass extinctions.
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Scientists Found Something Shocking in the Arctic!
A new fossil discovery in the Arctic just blew paleontologists' minds. Imagine you are a scientist and someone tells you they found a fossil on a remote island in Norway. This arctic discovery…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A team exploring a cave in New Zealand found a giant claw… with skin and muscle still attached.
It looked fresh.
It was 3,000 years old.
Cold, sealed cave air preserved it for millennia.

What was this?
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The Mystery of the Ancient Claw Discovered in New Zealand
Explorers crawl into a narrow cave tunnel in New Zealand… and find a giant claw. Not just bone — it still has skin and muscle. It looks fresh. But tests show it’s over 3,000 years old. So how is…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
234 million years ago, most of Pangaea was desert.
Then forests suddenly spread across regions that should’ve stayed dry.

A global water-cycle shift rewrote the landscape and opened the door for dinosaurs.
Full story ↓
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How Rain Transformed Pangaea's Deserts into Forests
Imagine we travelled back 234 million years ago. All land masses are united into a big continent named Pangaea. Most of the interior is desert because rain can’t reach that far inland, and life…
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November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
Wing structure and irregular feather molt in the early paravian dinosaur Anchiornis: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🪶🧪 (📷Kiat et al.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.

Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia 🏺🧪
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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What if I told you dinosaurs rose to power because Earth entered a rainstorm that lasted nearly TWO million years?

My new video breaks down the event that changed everything
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What If It Rained for 2 Million Years?
It Rained for 2 Million Years and Accidentally Created Dinosaurs Today’s video covers one of the most surprising climate events in Earth’s history: a rainy...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sabertooths lasted almost 20 million years.
So why aren’t they still here?
A new study suggests their extinction may be tied to something surprisingly simple: the slow decline of the prey they relied on.
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The Real Reason Saber-Toothed Cats Went Extinct
Saber-tooth cats survived for nearly 20 million years. So why did they disappear? 🦷 New research reveals it wasn't just the Ice Age. By reconstructing the entire sabertooth lineage that includes…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ever wondered what Earth looked like when dinosaurs ruled? 🦕

I'm Dr. Silvia from Climate Ages, where Earth's history becomes our climate playbook for the future.

Subscribe for science that explains our past & shapes our future!
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What Fossils Reveal About Earth's Climate Future
Have you ever wondered what the Earth looked like when life first appeared, dinosaurs evolved into the beasts that fascinate us, or mesmerizing creatures like Megalodon went extinct? Are you…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator. Twice.
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
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Did Plankton Freeze the Whole Earth?
Did you know that Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator? Twice. And the new theory for how it happened is not what you’d expect. It wasn’t an asteroid. It wasn’t…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
"Knowledge can’t stay trapped in journals if it’s meant to help us make better choices."
My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years.

Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.

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The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever
How research showing mammals in the wrong climates made me leave the lab for storytelling The last scientific research that I led made me quit...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years.

Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.

Full story ↓
🧪 #SciComm
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The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever
How research showing mammals in the wrong climates made me leave the lab for storytelling The last scientific research that I led made me quit...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Everyone asks if T. rex had feathers.

We do have skin impressions showing scales, but they’re tiny and found in sediments where feathers almost never fossilize.

Early relatives had hair-like feathers, and many dinosaurs had mixed scales and feathers.

So?
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Did T. rex Really Have Feathers?
Did T. rex have feathers? This is a real skin impression from Tyrannosaurus rex. It shows scales, and when these patches were first published, many paleontologists took them as evidence that T. rex…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We thought coelacanths barely changed for 380 million years…

Until new research revealed they actually evolved, driven by what they least expected!
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The Fish that Defied Evolution for 400 Million Years
Coelacanths were believed extinct for 66 million years until a shocking discovery in 1938. New research reveals this "living fossil" actually evolved, but followed a surprising pattern that changed…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Scientists just found ancient air trapped in space dust.
Tiny micrometeorites melt as they fall through our atmosphere, grab oxygen from the air, cool, and lock that signature inside.

This could give us real samples of ancient air.

Wild.
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Scientists Found Ancient Air Trapped in Space Dust
How Micrometeorites Preserved Earth’s Ancient Air for Hundreds of Millions of Years
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November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What if I told you that megalodon's biggest strength was also its deadly weakness? 🦈

The ocean's apex predator was killed by its own success. Here's the shocking science behind why being the biggest can make you the most vulnerable
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Why Megalodon's Biggest Strength Became Its Ultimate Weakness
What if I told you that the reason megalodon got so big is the same reason it ultimately went extinct? For decades, we pictured megalodon wrong. We imagined a giant great white. But here's the…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
What if I told you dinosaurs became rulers of Earth... because it rained for 2 MILLION YEARS? 🌧️🦕
Here's the mind-blowing science behind the Carnian Pluvial Episode that changed everything:
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2 Million Years Of Rain: How Storms Created The Dinosaur Age
Could dinosaurs really have evolved because of rain? Here's the mind-blowing science behind the Carnian Pluvial Episode - a 2-million-year mega-storm that changed Earth forever. 🌧️ 230 million…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
❄️ Earth once froze solid: glaciers at the equator, oceans sealed under ice for millions of years.

Scientists finally think they know why: tiny plankton, oxygen & phosphorus flipped Earth’s thermostat into overdrive.

Watch the story:
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The Tiny Organism That Froze Earth For Millions of Years
Picture Earth completely frozen - glaciers down to sea level at the equator, oceans sealed under miles of ice where sunlight could never reach the water below. This wasn't science fiction. It…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
252 million years ago, Siberian volcanoes caused Earth's biggest extinction.
But humans now release CO₂ 200x faster than those ancient eruptions

It's not about total amounts, it's about speed.

Volcanoes: 0.02-0.13 gigatons/year
Humans: 36 gigatons/year
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252 Million Years Ago, Volcanoes Released This Much CO2. Humans Did It 200x Faster
It’s not how much carbon was released, it’s how fast
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November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Every day, 40,000 tons of space dust hit Earth.

Some grains survive and trap oxygen from our air inside them.

Scientists just found 4 still holding that oxygen after tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Every shooting star writes our planet’s story.
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Scientists Found Ancient Air Trapped in Space Dust!
Scientists just discovered something incredible - cosmic dust grains that act as perfect time capsules, preserving Earth's ancient atmosphere for millions of years. These 4 microscopic particles…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Someone claimed ancient volcanoes emitted more CO₂ than humans ever could. The data says otherwise.

Siberian Traps (252 million years ago): 0.02–0.13 gigatons of CO₂ per year, over ~300,000–500,000 years
Humans today: ~36 gigatons per year
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Humans vs Volcanoes: The Shocking Carbon Truth
Someone said volcanic eruptions release way more CO₂ than humans ever could. But the science tells a different story. The Siberian Traps released massive carbon over 300,000-500,000 years, only…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy, and open cluster NGC 6939. The latter is a loose collection of stars only ~4000 light years away, while the former is a gravitationally bound “island universe” about 25 million light years away.

5.7hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭 🧪
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November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When carbon rises too fast, Earth's climate stability breaks.

It happened 360 million years ago.
It happened 280 million years ago (→ the biggest mass extinction).

Today, we're releasing carbon faster than ancient volcanoes.

The rhythm is breaking again. 🌍
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When Carbon Broke Earth's Climate Rhythm (Twice)
Earth's climate had a rhythm for millions of years—until carbon broke it. Twice. 360 million years ago, volcanic CO2 flooded the atmosphere and climate became chaotic. 50 million years later,…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM