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 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 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…
Researchers found nautiloids outlived other shelly creatures in the late-Cretaceous extinction because they had slower metabolisms.
Paleontologists described a trilobite fossil preserved in 3D with its gut contents intact.
Lightning bolts can be deadly or destructive, but some researchers propose they might also have supplied essential elements for the first…
A researcher from Vanderbilt University inferred dinosaur intelligence from fossilized skulls. She used the skulls to estimate the number of…