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 ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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 ...

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

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 ...

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.

A Geochemical History of Life on Earth: 2. When bacteria ruled the world. World Book Café: PEN. Somalia’s forgotten hostages. Russia: The limits of freedom. Ros Atkins on: China-Taiwan tensions.

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 ...