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Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...
Imagine stepping back in time to Earth 2 billion years ago,long before forests, dinosaurs, or even fish. Step into Earth’s ...
Imagine stepping back 200 million years into a world vastly different from the Earth we know today. During the age of dinosaurs, one colossal landmass, Pangaea, dominated the surface, surrounded by ...
A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...
Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...
Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
USA Rare Earth is racing to create a production line for neodymium magnets, aiming to reduce U.S. reliance on China’s rare ...
Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they turn genes on and off. Scientists mapped every cell s activity during ...
A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of an extinct “monster,” in the latest reminder that museum collections ...
At the current pace of carbon pollution, the world will blow through its last sliver of the 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) carbon budget by early 2028. That sobering deadline comes from the latest ...