A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...
Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...
A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...
Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, the tallest things on land were not trees or animals but towering, trunk-like ...
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Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...