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☆ Rare floods in Sahara Desert shown in images
  + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. Some of the most dramatic images are from the desert town of Merzouga, where the rare deluge carved new lakes into the sand dunes. NASA satellite images from the region, using false color to better highlight the floodwaters, show newly-formed lakes across swaths of the northwest Sahara. morocco flood before 0824 NASA morocco flood after 0924 NASA A NASA false-color satellite image shows parts of the Sahara Desert in Morocco and Algeria on August 14, 2024. Satellite images from September showed huge swaths of it carpeted in green as storms pushed further north than usual, a phenomenon some studies have linked to human-caused climate change.
Persons: It’s, we’ve, CNN’s Brandon Miller Organizations: CNN, NASA, AP Locations: Morocco, Sahara, Merzouga, Rachidia, morocco, NASA morocco, Algeria
☆ Videos show mysterious lights in the sky just before a devastating earthquake hit Morocco. Scientists can't figure out why.
  + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Scientists say so-called "earthquake lights" have long been reported when tremors hit. Insider was unable to independently verify the videos, but experts believe they could have recorded an aerial phenomenon known as "earthquake lights." Advertisement Advertisement Watch:No one knows for sure if earthquake lights exist, or what causes them. 'Earthquake lights' were long relegated to old folk talesThere is a smattering of records reporting bursts of light linked to earthquakes that date back centuries. Because of this, earthquake lights had been thought to be a myth.
Persons: Karen Daniels, There's, Friedemann Freund, Daniels, We're Organizations: Service, Reuters, New York Times, North Carolina State University, PBS, Guardian, SETI, Washington, Geological Survey, Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, Morocco, Eastern Morocco, Mexico City, Japan
☆ Fearsome spinosaurus wasn't the scourge of prehistoric seas after all
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Sereno and his team returned to their work with Spinosaurus in search of answers about what life had really been like for the fearsome dinosaur. James GurneyNext, the team turned to Spinosaurus’ tail. Dr. Frank Fish, tail mechanics expert and professor of biology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, took the lead. Fish compared the Spinosaurus tail with those of alligators and other reptiles and found the dinosaur would have been too rigid to function well underwater. Spinosaurus fossils have largely been found in the riverbank deposits of Niger’s inland basins, which are distant from prehistoric marine coastlines.
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