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Published Sea level changes shaped early life on Earth, fossil study reveals



Shifts in the Earth's continental plates that drove long-term changes in sea level set the stage for ...
Published Researchers find oldest undisputed evidence of Earth's magnetic field



A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it ...
Published 'Jurassic worlds' might be easier to spot than modern Earth



An analysis finds telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in an Earth-l ...
Published Ore-some: New date for Earth's largest iron deposits offers clues for future exploration



Research reveals that Earth's largest iron ore deposits -- in the Hamersley Province of Western Aust ...
Published Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils



The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found i ...
Published Study sheds light on how Earth cycles fossil-carbon



Researches used rhenium as a proxy for fossil carbon in order to quantify the rate at which Earth na ...
Published Did a magnetic field collapse trigger the emergence of animals?



Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state ...
Published Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst



Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes t...
Published Window to the past: New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life



Microfossils may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in...
Published Why the harsh Snowball Earth kick-started our earliest multicellular ancestors



Why did multicellularity arise? Solving that mystery may help pinpoint life on other planets and exp...
Published Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate - Earth's First Animals Had Particular Taste in Real Estate



Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows -- for the first time -- that...
Published Landscape dynamics determine the evolution of biodiversity on Earth



A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 milli...
Published Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils



New research has precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the wor...
Published What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700 million years ago? Scientists now have an answer



Inspired during field work in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, geoscientists have proposed that al...
Published Scientists untangle interactions between the Earth's early life forms and the environment over 500 million years



The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways ...
Published Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of 'snowball Earth'



The study found that the Port Askaig Formation, composed of layers of rock up to 1.1 km thick, was l...
Published Early Cretaceous shift in the global carbon cycle affected both land and sea - Early Cretaceous Shift in the Global Carbon Cycle Affected Both Land and Sea


Geologists doing fieldwork in southeastern Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation found carbon isotope evid...
Published Fossil spines reveal deep sea's past



Right at the bottom of the deep sea, the first very simple forms of life on earth probably emerged a ...
Published Insight into one of life's earliest ancestors revealed in new study



Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million ...
Published Changes in Earth's orbit may have triggered ancient warming event - Changes in Earth's Orbit May Have Triggered Ancient Warming Event


Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warmi ...