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Earth's Seasons Are Strangely Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet's seasons from space and discovered that spring ...
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Earth’s oxygen-rich era is 82% over, models reveal
Could the clock already be ticking on the habitable environment of planet Earth? New models of the Earth’s climate and the life cycles of stars place planet Earth far short of the maximum point of the ...
Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.
Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...
The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...
A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human expansion is inextricably tied to climate shifts.
National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...
A Fascinating Theory About a Ring of Asteroids Around Earth Has Some Wild Implications for Evolution
Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago. The divots were created at a time when animals in the seas were ...
In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...
Today, Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Venus Express is showing that this was not always the case. Instead, some time in the past, Venus was probably much more ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An international team of researchers investigated how Earth’s ...
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Q&A: Climate shifts drove carnivores' evolution from mongoose-like ancestors to diverse forms
The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...
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