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Son crâne mesure 2 mètres et compte encore 130 dents : découvrez ce redoutable prédateur du Jurassique
Its skull measures 2 meters and still has 130 teeth: discover this formidable Jurassic predator
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A major paleontological discovery has just shaken the global scientific community. A gigantic skull of a pliosaur, a marine reptile dating back 150 million years, was recently entered into the Guinness Book of Records. This exceptionally preserved relic offers us a window...
04/10/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Combien de fois la Terre a-t-elle déjà « basculé » ? Ces anciennes mers pourraient révéler ces mystérieux déplacements
How many times has the Earth “flipped”? These ancient seas could reveal these mysterious movements
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What if the continents could all change latitude at the same time? This is what “true polar wander” can cause, when the solid Earth gradually reorients itself in relation to its axis of rotation. A new study also shows that ancient variations in sea level...
03/10/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Ce volcan offre l’un des spectacles les plus étranges et rares de la planète : une intense lumière bleue en surgit la nuit
This volcano offers one of the strangest and rare spectacles on the planet: an intense blue light emerges from it at night
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A volcano where the lava suddenly seems to turn blue: the spectacle offered every night by Kawah Ijen, in Indonesia, seems straight out of a science fiction film. However, behind these strange flames which illuminate the crater hides a very real chemical phenomenon... and...
29/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
« Un tel impact raserait aujourd’hui de grandes villes » : il cherchait où camper sur Google Maps et découvre un cratère géant !
“Such an impact would level large cities today”: he was looking for where to camp on Google Maps and discovered a giant crater!
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He was simply looking for a quiet place to camp in Quebec when a strange circular shape appeared on Google Maps caught his attention. Two years later, an expedition carried out in particularly difficult conditions has just revealed what is really hidden around the lake...
24/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
6 300 milliards de tonnes d’eau se déplacent chaque année… et font osciller le centre de la Terre
6,300 billion tons of water move every year… and cause the center of the Earth to oscillate
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Each year, immense quantities of water are redistributed on the Earth's surface with the seasons, to the point of causing its center of mass to slightly oscillate. A new study shows how to measure these movements of a few millimeters with unprecedented precision, and why they...
21/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
On connaît désormais la température du T. rex, et elle n’est pas celle qu’on aurait imaginée
We now know the temperature of the T. rex, and it is not what we would have imagined
tooth Dinosauria bird mammals
What if the T. rex had had a body temperature close to ours? Long considered “cold-blooded” animals, dinosaurs may in fact have developed a physiology much closer to that of birds and mammals. A fossilized tooth comes today...
18/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Un immense réservoir d’eau pourrait se cacher au fond du manteau terrestre : une nouvelle piste émerge
A huge reservoir of water could be hidden deep in the Earth's mantle: a new lead emerges
What if some of the earth's water was hidden much deeper than we imagined? Researchers have synthesized in the laboratory two minerals capable of trapping hydrogen in the extreme conditions at the base of the mantle. These phases could even help explain the...
18/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Ces grandes villes s’enfoncent plus vite que la mer ne monte, alertent les scientifiques
These big cities are sinking faster than the sea is rising, warn scientists
All of the world's largest coastal cities are gradually sinking into the ground. For the majority of them, complete disappearance even seems inevitable within a few decades.
18/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Les essais nucléaires en Corée du Nord auraient durablement modifié des forces dans la croûte et réactivé des failles !
The nuclear tests in North Korea would have permanently modified forces in the crust and reactivated faults!
North Korea tectonics
For several years, the ground has been shaking abnormally in North Korea, particularly around Mount Mantap, a region considered to be relatively seismic. If the observed earthquakes appear to be of tectonic origin, researchers believe that the trigger for this activity...
17/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Graines « de l’apocalypse » : leur durée de conservation réelle réserve une mauvaise surprise, révèle une étude
“Apocalypse” seeds: their actual shelf life holds an unpleasant surprise, study reveals
Australia study
Seed banks are supposed to preserve part of our agricultural heritage for decades, if not much longer. But how long can these seeds actually remain able to germinate? A vast analysis carried out in Australia provides a less reassuring answer...
16/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
La couche d’ozone devrait être rétablie dans quelques décennies, selon les experts : alors pourquoi les UV montent-ils en Europe ?
The ozone layer should be restored in a few decades, according to experts: so why are UV rays rising in Europe?
The ozone layer, our natural shield against ultraviolet rays, is doing better. However, in Europe, UV is gaining ground. An apparent contradiction which tells of another transformation of our atmosphere.
16/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Le T. rex n’était pas qu’une brute : son cerveau aurait pu lui permettre de résoudre des problèmes et même d’utiliser des outils
The T. rex wasn't just a brute: its brain could have allowed it to solve problems and even use tools
Dinosauria Tyrannosaurus
A tyrannosaurus as clever as a baboon, capable of using tools and transmitting knowledge: the hypothesis went around the world in 2023. An international team scrutinized it, resulting in an estimate ten times lower. The debate is less about dinosaurs and more about...
12/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Ils ont retrouvé une crotte de dinosaure : une minuscule plume pourrait expliquer pourquoi certains oiseaux ont survécu
They found dinosaur droppings: a tiny feather could explain why some birds survived
feather fossil Dinosauria
What if simple feathers, trapped for 66 million years in dinosaur droppings, held part of the answer to one of the great enigmas in the history of birds? Exceptionally well-preserved fossils have just revealed a difference that might have helped...
11/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Le Krakatau offre des images spectaculaires : une nuit de feu au-dessus de l’un des volcans les plus puissants du monde
Krakatau offers spectacular images: a night of fire above one of the most powerful volcanoes in the world
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An eruptive paroxysm occurred on the famous Indonesian volcano Krakatau on September 4 and 5. A powerful lava fountain formed a voluminous plume of ash which reached 15 kilometers in altitude, for impressive images! Rain of volcanic projections, dark night in...
09/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
« Ce n’est pas possible » : ces scientifiques ont dû refaire l’expérience avant de croire ce qu’ils voyaient en Arctique
“It’s not possible”: these scientists had to repeat the experiment before believing what they saw in the Arctic
evolution
In the Canadian High Arctic, researchers obtained results so unexpected that they initially thought it was a mistake. However, experience after experience, the same phenomenon has been reproduced. And it could force scientists to rethink how they understand the evolution of...
09/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Une IA révèle six structures mystérieuses cachées aux portes du noyau terrestre !
An AI reveals six mysterious structures hidden at the gates of the Earth's core!
Nearly 2,900 kilometers beneath our feet, the boundary between the core and the mantle is home to structures that are still largely mysterious. By analyzing more than 2 million seismic recordings using deep learning, researchers have detected very faint seismic signals, revealing six...
07/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Voici à quoi pouvait ressembler une partie de la bande-son des forêts au temps des dinosaures
This is what part of the forest soundtrack might have sounded like in the time of the dinosaurs
Jurassic fossil Dinosauria insect
150 million years ago, the Jurassic forests probably echoed with sounds of which we know little. However, insect fossils have just provided valuable clues about this mysterious soundtrack, revealing in particular acoustic signals at surprisingly high frequencies...
05/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Au large de l’Angleterre, des chercheurs pensent avoir retrouvé la trace d’immense supervolcan
Off the coast of England, researchers believe they have found traces of a huge supervolcano
A volcano several hundred million years old has just been discovered very close to the British coast. Now extinct, it must have been extremely active in the distant past.
04/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Une première à cette échelle : une côte du plus grand T. rex connu livre un secret figé au moment de sa mort
A first on this scale: a rib of the largest known T. rex reveals a secret frozen at the moment of its death
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He was huge, old and obviously a fighter. Weighing almost 9 tonnes and 13 meters long, Scotty is the largest T. rex ever discovered. But one of its coasts tells a much more surprising story: researchers have found traces of a healing process there...
04/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
Cette image patatoïde de la Terre dévoilée par la Nasa paraît absurde… elle révèle pourtant un phénomène bien réel !
This distorted image of the Earth revealed by NASA seems absurd... yet it reveals a very real phenomenon!
In the strange shape of a “potatoid”, the geoid reveals an Earth very different from the one we see on its surface. To understand how this mysterious surface is deformed, we must go back to the 18th century, when Pierre Bouguer tried to measure the gravitational influence of a...
02/09/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated
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