Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...
The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors.
Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex -- structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -- are present in abundance in ...
To understand how extant viruses interact with their hosts, we need a historical framework of their evolutionary association. Akin to retrovirus or hepadnavirus viral fossils present in eukaryotic ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
According to a new study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ 7 Li) data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric ...
Paleozoic marine ecosystems were marked by a diverse array of symbiotic interactions that have left a lasting imprint on the evolutionary history of life. These associations, ranging from mutualistic ...
The late Paleozoic ice age (LPIA) began in the Mississippian period (Visean-Serpukhovian) and is associated with a global mass extinction. This study examines how the development of high-amplitude ...
For the first time, researchers have assembled a comprehensive record of sea level variations during the Paleozoic Era, producing a nearly-300-million–year timeline that more than doubles previous ...
The 1871 crime saw models of dinosaurs, which were destined for a Paleozoic Museum in Central Park, smashed to bits. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, drawings for the Paleozoic Museum, from the Twelfth ...
Fossils predate the written record by billions of years, but their impact on human history—and the way humans percieve the world around them—has been palpable for centuries. By offering a rare glimpse ...
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ sets new record Pilot who safely landed Alaska Airlines jet after door blowout says ...