If all the world’s a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record.
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Posted inArctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Press Release, Terraforming & Geoengineering, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
New Evidence Of When Earth Was Slushy
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet.
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Press Release, Radiation, Space Weather & Heliophysics
Unprecedented Atmospheric Changes Occurred During May’s Geomagnetic Superstorm
On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend, a tractor guided by GPS missed its mark.
Posted inExtinction events, Press Release
Understanding Earth’s First Known Mass Extinction Event 550 Million Years Ago
A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority […]
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Press Release
1 Billion-year-old Green Seaweed Fossils identified, Relative Of Modern Land Plants
Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees […]
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
New Evidence of Ancient Multicellular Life Sets Evolutionary Timeline Back 60 Million Years
A Virginia Tech geobiologist with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appeared in living things about 600 million years […]