During the age of dinosaurs, the oceans teemed with plesiosaurs, a family of distinctive long-necked predators that could grow to more than 80 feet in length. As charismatic sea creatures of the past, plesiosaurs have become pop culture icons, in part due to their resemblance to cryptids such as the Loch Ness Monster. Though plesiosaurs […]
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5400mph winds discovered hurtling around planet outside solar system
November 13th, 2015 Awake Goy
Winds of over 2km per second have been discovered flowing around planet outside of the Earth’s solar system, new research has found. The University of Warwick discovery is the first time that a weather system on a planet outside of Earth’s solar system has been directly measured and mapped. The wind speed recorded is […]