The Conversation Africa·8d ago
A study published in The Conversation Africa discusses how oxygen atoms found in 15-million-year-old giant eggshells from the Namib desert provide insights into how plants responded to a hotter Earth during the Miocene Epoch. The eggs, laid by extinct relatives of ostriches, serve as time capsules of ancient air, revealing climatic conditions of that era, which is considered an intermediate geological period between the age of dinosaurs and more recent times.