June 3, 2024 — New research has found evidence that fresh water on Earth, which is essential for life, appeared about four billion years ago -- five hundred million years earlier than previously ...

The ring may have contributed to the coldest period on Earth, which occurred within the past 500 million years. Between 488 million and 443 million years ago, falling debris from a large asteroid ...

Scientists, including Johann Klages, discovered an ancient 1,000-mile river system beneath Antarctica from 40 million years ago. This finding, linked to Eocene epoch climate changes, provides ...

The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and 443.8 million years ago ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million years ...

The temporary structure likely consisted of debris from a broken-up asteroid. Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably would've needed a jacket. Geologists have long suspected that Earth's temperature dropped dramatically during this ...

Earth Had a Ring 466 Million Years Ago, ... 40 min Learn more. Share full article. 36. An artist’s rendering of the Earth surrounded by a temporary ring of debris 466 million years ago.

Fresh paleomagnetic data from Italy shows Earth's crust tipped and corrected itself 84 million years ago, confirming true polar wander. (CREDIT: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio) ...