Researchers have found that Earth’s first oceans may not have been blue at all like today. Instead, they may have gleamed in ...
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...
Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
All life on Earth can ... some 4 billion years, which is only 600 million years after the planet’s formation. But a new study ...
About 800 million years ago, oxygen levels reached about 21 percent and began to breathe life into more complex organisms. The oxygen-rich ozone layer was also established, shielding the Earth's ...
The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
Earth didn’t just go through one deep freeze ... located in present-day Scotland and Ireland. Formed about 800 million years ago on the eastern shore of a past continent called Laurentia ...
A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...