A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...

Geologists have produced a new timeline of Earth's Paleozoic climate changes. The record shows ancient temperature variations coinciding with shifts in planet's biodiversity. The temperature of a ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life: the Late Paleozoic ice age. At its peak, huge ...

(CN) — Scientists announced a method Monday of determining the Earth’s temperature from the early Paleozoic era, allowing them to track the rise and fall of different species as the planet warmed and ...

Long before dinosaurs appeared Earth was shaped by a vast and unfamiliar world known as the Paleozoic Era Fossils from this time reveal early experiments in life including strange marine creatures ...

Modeling of average (left) and minimum surface temperatures during the Pennsylvanian Period. Top row shows low carbon dioxide and maximum glaciation in the southern hemisphere (Mattheus et al). A new ...

Expeditions to a remote area of Yukon, Canada, have uncovered a 120-million-year-long geological record of a time when land plants and complex animals first evolved and ocean oxygen levels began to ...

Little is known about Paleozoic creatures' parental prowess. But a newly uncovered 300-million-year-old fossil might be the earliest evidence of a parent, well, acting like a parent. Little is known ...

CAMBRIDGE -- The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth's temperature during the early ...