Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth. These ...

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Scientists discover fossils that change what we know about evolution - Scientists have discovered fossils in China that ...

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

From a swirling cloud of cosmic dust to a planet teeming with life, Earth’s story is nothing short of unbelievable. We travel across 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution. Witness the birth of our ...

Despite their incredible success, ammonites died out at the end of the Cretaceous in the same mass extinction that killed the ...

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