How complex plants reshaped the oceans
Researchers found that when complex plants evolved, they increased ocean oxygen and massively restructured the marine ecosystem.
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Researchers found that when complex plants evolved, they increased ocean oxygen and massively restructured the marine ecosystem.
Scientists found that bat droppings, microorganisms, and dripping water combine to dissolve cave formations in Slovakia and Poland.
Scientists stimulated atmospheric gases with electricity and found they reacted with common salts and minerals to form complex chemicals…
Researchers analyzed new fossils from Ecuador that suggested the ancestors of Galápagos giant tortoises inhabited northern South America…
Scientists discovered molecules that helped the first complex life forms build strong cell membranes to withstand extreme environments.
Scientists used models to test whether remnants of the moon-forming impactor, Theia, are present deep within the Earth.
Scientists used spark discharge experiments to test whether lightning converted enough nitrogen to a usable form to support the origins of…
Paleontologists described exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a complex marine ecosystem that developed within 1 million years of a…
Geologists examined CT images of diamonds from southern Africa to determine what happens to them underground.
Researchers found nautiloids outlived other shelly creatures in the late-Cretaceous extinction because they had slower metabolisms.