Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

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One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

Earth’s first mass extinction: When anyone thinks of mass extinction on Earth, the first thing they think of is the extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, likely as an impact of comet or ...

Two amateur paleontologists have uncovered an important fossil site in southern France. The site contains around 400 fossils from around 470 million years ago. Scientists from the University of ...