A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reveals the existence of a 60-million-year cycle combining tectonics, biogeochemistry, and marine biodiversity. By ...

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Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

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The research offers a clearer picture of how global temperatures have changed over time, emphasizing the strong relationship between Earth's temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Perhaps, in time, civilisation would grow back up, perhaps not. Think again about the Cretaceous. What captures the imagination is how it ended: in fire, tsunami and a deep, wintry darkness ...

Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous In 50m years it spawned dinosaurs, seafood, geopolitics—and our distant ancestors. ... when, as happens from time to time, ...

How did the Andes—the world's longest mountain range—reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of ...

Floral time travel: flowers were more diverse 100 million years ago than they are today Angiosperm flowers reached their greatest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history ...