T he history of life on Earth began long after the planet's formation 4.6 billion years ago. During the earliest stage of ...

In just 8 minutes, we take you on a breathtaking journey through the history of our world, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present day. Earth’s evolution spans billions of years, marked by ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Andrew H. Knoll (Author) Princeton University Press. 288 pages. $8.98 ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Life We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought. A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Earth was only a few ...

Sure, the end of oxygen spells doom for most life on Earth as we know it. However, this is merely a continuation of the planet’s ever-changing nature and long history of extinction events .

The history of life on Earth . In the new paper, the authors adopt what is known as a "Gaian" perspective of life and its relationship to Earth.

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Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life.. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion ...