Three billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. The sun that shone on its oceans and continents was not as bright as it is today, and rather than the oxygen-rich atmosphere humans need to ...

Early Earth was no barren, lifeless landscape. Instead, it may have been covered entirely with water. Welcome to the Waterworld. Rocks aged 3.24 billion years reveal the Earth may have had absolutely ...

This fossil collection reveals a completely different version of Earth, where ancient oceans covered continents and strange life forms dominated the planet. Each fossil represents a moment in deep ...

Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth’s core formed under very different ...