GolfPopper
6 hours ago
I find myself, perhaps irrationally, quite irked that the picture headlining the article uses a picture of current Earth with rings, when Earth's surface 466 million years ago looked much different[1]. The paper itself [2] does have a map, although (understandably) not an artist's depiction. Most other sources covering the paper appear to have repurposed "ringed terrestrial planet" artwork, but I found one has an artist's rendition[3] to mollify myself.
1. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#450 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2... 3. https://www.yahoo.com/news/earth-had-saturn-rings-466-182200...
jtwaleson
an hour ago
I live in the Netherlands, which has a province reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century. You'd be surprised how many documentaries of "Europe during the ice ages" etc show this province (Flevoland) on their maps. Always makes me chuckle.