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Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery
3+ mon, 12+ hour ago (236+ words) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution....
Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (682+ words) from the Josefsdal Chert, dating back 3.33 billion years, are the earliest and most confident detection...have been dramatically altered in the billions of years since they first wiggled around in the primordial...
Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike in a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (737+ words) hidden rhythm stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The possibility that Earth's geological history...geological events spanning the past 260 million years using updated geological ages and statistical analyses....dominant periodicity of approximately 27.5 million years, alongside a weaker cycle of…...
The Moon's Mysterious Origins Still Stump Astronomers
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (645+ words) A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our Moon first formed....
Scientists Reveal Origins of Giant Object That Smashed Into Earth
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (616+ words) One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth,...the Sun and its protoplanetary disk billions of years ago would also have favored the accumulation of...
Something Strange Altered Earth's Magnetic Field 40 Million Years Ago
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (664+ words) field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – raising big questions about how long these...been some 540 reversals across the last 170 million years, and it seems they've been happening for billions of years. But something was different 40 million years…...
78 Million Years Ago, an Asteroid Hit Earth. Then Life Grew in The Crater
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (730+ words) 78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater...impact structure. Related: Colossal Impact 3 Billion Years Ago May Have Boosted Life on Earth Their research...
A 481-Meter Tsunami Struck Alaska, And It Was a Terrifying Near Miss
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (256+ words) As Earth's climate warms, glaciers are retreating....
Unexpected 'Zig-Zag' Structures Discovered in Earth's Magnetic Field
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (424+ words) A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time. The discovery could help scientists forecast the impact of geomagnetic storms more accurately. Physicists Emily McDougall and Matthew Argall…...
Asteroids May Have Delayed The Birth of Earth's First Continents
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (751+ words) The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy....