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which ended approximately 66 million years ago (after a meteor strike, many scientists believe, eliminated the majority of life on Earth). For most of the Cretaceous, Canada’s prairie provinces ...

A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered this by studying the growth rings of ancient mollusk fossils. The findings could tell us more about or planet ...

Earth’s magnetic field sustains life on our planet, protecting us from solar winds, radiation and extreme changes in temperature. But around 591 million years ago, it almost collapsed.

The Early Cretaceous Epoch lasted from 145 million years ago to 100.5 million years ago and the Late Cretaceous Epoch lasted from ... the end of the period the continents had moved almost into the ...

A new animation showcasing Earth’s evolution has surfaced in a new paper published in the journal Science. The animation was created using a new model, which highlights over 100 million years of ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The agency announced on Thursday that asteroid 99942 Apophis, which was identified in 2004, will not pose a risk to Earth for at least 100 years ... than 4 billion years ago and originated ...

Establishing a direct link between Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first 100 million years of its ... were established four billion years ago, very soon after the planet came ...

About 800 million years ago, oxygen levels reached about 21 percent and began to breathe life into more complex organisms. The oxygen-rich ozone layer was also established, shielding the Earth's ...

During this dramatic period of climate change about 252 million years ago, about 80 to 90 percent of all species on Earth were wiped ... collected fossil data from 100 temnospondyls that lived ...