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Scientists have uncovered 3.7-billion-year-old fossils in Greenland that have set a new record for the earliest-known evidence of life on Earth.

Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.

Climate is not constant on Earth. Consider ice ages coming and going as an example.

Many species now perishing in Earth’s ongoing sixth mass extinction might vanish without leaving a fossil trace – and earlier extinctions may be underestimated as well, according to a study by three paleontologists published March 2, 2016 in Ecology Letters.

Eating raw meat and making stone tools may be behind the smaller teeth and faces of humans compared with their ancient relatives.

A dramatic shift in the Earth’s climate killed off marine reptiles that swam at the time of the dinosaurs, according to a new study.

A bed of fossilized, methane dependent clams has for the first time been observed in the high Arctic. It tells the story of a thousand year long methane release event.

According to new research, a mass extinction 359 million years ago known as the Hangenberg event triggered a drastic and lasting transformation of Earth’s vertebrate community. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the original source).

Humanity has long been on trial for the demise of mammoths and other large mammals – new forensic evidence reveals the true killer.