If the entire history of the Earth was compressed into a single 24-hour day, here's how that day would pan out.

An Illustrated History of Life on Earth July 6, 2001. Ordovician Period, 506-439 million years ago, ©Barbara Page. How and when did the “Rock of Ages” project begin to take shape?

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution by Mark Pagel, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen Jay Gould, ed.

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

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 ...

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

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (Pan Macmillan, 2021 / Picador, 2022: Amazon US / Amazon UK), by senior Nature science editor and novelist, Henry ...

The new research, on the other hand, says that Earth had these volatiles all alone, and that the life-essential elements were here from the beginning, during the planet’s earliest formation.

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 ...

Earth as oxygenator. Earth loses about 90 tons of gas—mainly hydrogen and helium—to space every day. That’s tiny compared to the mass of our atmosphere, so there’s no cause for alarm. But ...