Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is ...
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Earth’s oxygen-rich era is 82% over, models reveal

Could the clock already be ticking on the habitable environment of planet Earth? New models of the Earth’s climate and the ...
In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...
A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...
The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...
Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago. The divots were created at a time when animals in the seas were ...
National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An international team of researchers investigated how Earth’s ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...
Today, Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Venus Express is showing that this was not always the case. Instead, some time in the past, Venus was probably much more ...
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet's seasons from space and discovered that spring ...
The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...