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A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
Air trapped in ancient salt crystals reveals Earth's atmosphere 1.4 billion years ago had more oxygen than thought, ...
Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...
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A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...
These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...
While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.