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New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Geobiology, provide a rare window into the Great Oxidation Event, a time roughly 2.4 billion years ago when the oxygen co...
Ancient 450-million-year-old organism finds new life in Softbotics
Nov 07, 2023 (SPX)
Published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the research seeks to broaden modern perspective of animal design and movement by introd...
Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, resemble modern-day algae and might also give scientists an insig...
Dinosaurs likely brought down by dust, not asteroid, researchers say
Oct 30, 2023 (UPI)
A study published in Nature Geoscience on Monday suggests that finely ground dust, resulting from the impact of The Chicxulub asteroid, which was ejected into E...
Iron in ancient deep magma ocean probed by ultra-fast femtosecond X-ray lasers
Oct 23, 2023 (SPX)
In the present-day Earth's mantle, recent seismic imaging studies have unveiled large mountain- to continent-sized enigmatic structures in the lowermost mantle....
Ancient diamonds shine light on the evolution of Earth
Oct 19, 2023 (SPX)
These diamonds that were formed between 650 and 450 million years ago on the base of the supercontinent Gondwana, were analysed by an international team of expe...
Large swings in past ocean oxygen revealed
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists first measured oxygen in the oceans in the 1960s. Since then, they have observed decreasing levels in the mid-depths of the ocean-a phenomenon that c...
Dartmouth study removes human bias from debate over dinosaurs' demise
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers report in the journal Science a new modeling method powered by interconnected processors that can work through reams of geological and climate d...
Fossil spines reveal deep sea's past
Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)
Today's life in the deep sea would thus be comparatively young in the history of the Earth. But there is increasing evidence that parts of this world are much o...
New research reveals Earth's ancient 'breath'
Sep 04, 2023 (SPX)
The study, which was led by researchers at the University of Portsmouth and University of Montpellier, sheds new light on the evolution of life on our planet an...
Deep cycling of carbon and chlorine were likely flipped in Earth's early history
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The research published this week in Nature gives insight into the profound impact of the planet's gradual cooling on the deep cycling of carbon and chlorine bet...
Tiny ice mouse survived Arctic cold in the age of dinosaurs
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
It's a fitting title. While the little ice mouse wasn't actually a mouse, instead belonging to a now-extinct family of mammals called Gypsonictopidae, it was ce...
Ancient mineralized water droplets from Himalayas provides clues to Earth's past
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
"We have found a time capsule for paleo oceans," says Prakash Chandra Arya, PhD student at the Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS), IISc, and first author of the s...
Anceint ocean mineralized water droplets from Himalayas provides clues to Earth's past
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
"We have found a time capsule for paleo oceans," says Prakash Chandra Arya, PhD student at the Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS), IISc, and first author of the s...
Retired stars join the young stars' party in the sky: how evolved stars contribute to the early heating of Earth
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers identified this interaction occurred in one of the places where they think stars like our Sun must form, using the Gaia satellite, a 740m euro m...
Highly oxidizing magma of the early Earth
Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)
Ehime University has led an experimental study showing that the formation efficiency of Fe3+ via redox disproportionation of Fe2+ in metal-saturated magma under...
Earth formed from dry, rocky building blocks
Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)
Now, a study from Caltech shows that the early Earth accreted from hot and dry materials, indicating that our planet's water-the crucial component for the evolu...
New study sheds light on the evolution of animals
Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)
Animals* first occur in the fossil record around 574 million years ago. Their arrival appears as a sudden 'explosion' in rocks from the Cambrian period (539 mil...
Earth was created much faster than we thought
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
Up until now, researchers believed that it took more than 100 million years for the Earth to form. And it was also common belief that water was delivered by luc...
Earth had an 19-hour day for a billion years
Jun 12, 2023 (SPX)
Day length was shorter because the Moon was closer. "Over time, the Moon has stolen Earth's rotational energy to boost it into a higher orbit farther from Earth...
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