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The photo of the week: a microscopic “Hulk” filmed rampaging against his own people!

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What if the Hulk existed… on a microscopic scale? Behind this fascinating image lies a behavior as spectacular as it is unexpected... which intrigues scientists.

05/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Life on Earth could last longer than expected: a study restarts the great countdown

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If the Sun still has about 5 billion years to “live,” the gradual rise in its brightness could wipe life from the face of Earth well before that. The cause, in particular, is the combined effect of warming and the drop in atmospheric CO2 on photosynthesis. If some...

02/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

This bone forgotten in a drawer for 40 years has just revealed the very first dinosaur discovered in Antarctica!

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For almost forty years, it remained forgotten in a drawer in the British Antarctic Survey. This fossil, discovered in Antarctica in 1985, has just been identified as the very first dinosaur fossil ever unearthed on the white continent. A discovery which also sheds light on...

01/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Etna emerges from its calm with a slow, glowing and spectacular lava flow

After the opening of a small crater at the summit of Voragine on June 9, the highest summit crater of Etna, and the appearance of modest explosive activity at this location the next day, a nice lava flow began to form from June 26 around 3000 meters...

30/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Giant lava fountains filmed live: this Hawaiian volcano has already had 50 eruptive episodes in 18 months!

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Since the start of this eruption, on December 23, 2024, the activity has been episodic: pauses of one to three weeks separate phases of sustained activity of a few hours inside the summit caldera of the volcano. Fifty episodes followed one another in a year and a half,...

30/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

What if the dinosaurs had never disappeared?

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Without the impact of the giant asteroid that hit the Earth 66 million years ago and caused the extinction of 75% of species, another biodiversity would have emerged... probably without us.

27/06/2026 sciencesetavenir ⚙ Auto-translated

Only 2.5 meters: here is the miniature whale discovered in the heart of the Egyptian desert

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2.5 meters, 187 kilos: here is the smallest whale ever identified. 41 million years old, this tiny fossil resurfaced in the middle of the Egyptian desert. It says a lot about this period during which the ancestors of cetaceans left the land for the ocean. 

27/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Meet the mysterious sea dragon that could solve a riddle almost 200 million years old

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A three-metre skeleton has been lying dormant in Dorset chalk for 150 million years. Amateur excavators brought it out of obscurity in 2001, but it took more than twenty years for science to finally give it a name. This sea dragon shakes up what we thought we knew about...

21/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Bigger than the T. rex, could this giant dinosaur really swim? Here's what a new discovery reveals

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A bone discovered in Niger in 2022 reopens one of the most thorny paleontological issues. A new species of spinosaur has just been described in the journal Science. And with it, the question that has divided researchers for years resurfaces: did this giant dinosaur really swim?

20/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

A huge whale cemetery in the Indian Ocean

Scientists have just discovered an incredible beaked whale graveyard in the Diamantine area, 7 kilometers at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. 

19/06/2026 sciencesetavenir ⚙ Auto-translated

He was believed to be king of the oceans in the Jurassic: a pierced vertebra recounts a fight of extreme violence

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Forgotten for more than a century in the drawers of a museum, a fossil has now resurfaced and recounts a scene of extreme violence in the Jurassic oceans. An ichthyosaur vertebra, marked by the impact of a broken tooth, perhaps reveals the attack of one of the most formidable...

17/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Nicknamed the Gates of Hell, this crater has been burning for over 50 years: here's the incredible story behind it

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In Turkmenistan, a crater the size of a building has been burning in the desert for decades. His nickname? The gate to hell. 70 meters in diameter, flames that never go out, and an origin born from a forgotten Soviet accident. But until when? 

17/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Gigantic 180 million-year-old “sea dragon” discovered in UK

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180 million years under our feet. A colossal ichthyosaur fossil has just been unearthed in England, and it redraws what we thought we knew about these prehistoric marine reptiles. A discovery that shook the world of British paleontology. 

16/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Young Earth was ravaged by asteroids, but that would have changed everything

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More than 4 billion years ago, Earth underwent an intense bombardment by asteroids. Long considered simple agents of destruction, these collisions could nevertheless have played an unexpected role in creating environments favorable to the emergence of life.

15/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Here is the first global map of an immense living network hidden beneath our feet

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Beneath our feet lies one of the largest living networks on the planet. A new study reveals the dizzying scale of mycorrhizal fungi, these invisible allies of plants which transport billions of tonnes of carbon each year and could play a key role in...

13/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Behind the “T. rex leather” bag that is driving auctions, here’s what luxury really sells

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Between biotechnological prowess and luxury storytelling, a handbag presented as made from “T. rex leather” has just appeared on the Parisian auction market. Priced at several hundred thousand euros, the object invokes paleontology and fragments of...

12/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Researchers reveal giant structure hidden beneath Antarctica for 160 million years

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The White Continent was only discovered at the beginning of the 19th century. Men have only been exploring Antarctica for two centuries and its many secrets have not yet been unlocked. But modern means of detection are helping us with this goal, as shown by a recent discovery that has...

10/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Woolly mammoth DNA found in squirrel droppings

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Scientists have discovered a huge trove of ancient DNA from animals, including that of now-extinct woolly mammoths, in squirrel droppings preserved in Canadian permafrost, according to a study published June 9, 2026.

10/06/2026 sciencesetavenir ⚙ Auto-translated

Volcanoes declared “extinct” could silently prepare their explosive return

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How long can a volcano stay dormant before waking up? The study of a Greek volcano shows that even more than 100,000 years of silence are not necessarily enough to declare it extinct.

09/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Forget T. rex: This Giant Dinosaur With Monstrous Arms Might Have Been Even More Terrifying

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Discovered in Patagonia after three seasons of excavations, Joaquinraptor casali redistributes the cards of paleontology. This one-ton predator with disproportionate arms made the T. rex look like a one-armed boxer. What if brute force wasn't the best weapon of the dinosaur age?

07/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated