Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors.
For this reading guide, we're just looking at the sections of the chapters about rocks. The topic guide on Paleozoic Life picks up the sections of the chapters on critters. The topic guide organizes ...
Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex -- structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -- are present in abundance in ...
To understand how extant viruses interact with their hosts, we need a historical framework of their evolutionary association. Akin to retrovirus or hepadnavirus viral fossils present in eukaryotic ...
Within conifers, active abscission of complete penultimate branch systems is not common and has been described mainly from juveniles. Here I present evidence for the abscission of penultimate branch ...
According to a new study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ 7 Li) data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric ...
Paleozoic marine ecosystems were marked by a diverse array of symbiotic interactions that have left a lasting imprint on the evolutionary history of life. These associations, ranging from mutualistic ...
The 1871 crime saw models of dinosaurs, which were destined for a Paleozoic Museum in Central Park, smashed to bits. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, drawings for the Paleozoic Museum, from the Twelfth ...
The original plans for New York City’s Central Park included a Paleozoic Museum at 63rd Street and Central Park West, which would have displayed life-size concrete models of dinosaurs placed in ...
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