Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this week's episode of 7 Days of Science, we take a look at rings, mini-moons, birds with teeth, and Nigel Marvin the thylacine relative...

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Sources:

Earth’s planetary ring:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24004230
phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-million-years.html

Mini-moon:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad781f
phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-mini-moon-months.html

Mega El Niño event was responsible for the severity of the great dying:
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado2030

Prehistoric thylacine named after Nigel Marven (Ngamalacinus nigelmarveni):
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595

Prehistoric bird ate fruit not insects:
cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01124-2