Long before dinosaurs appeared Earth was shaped by a vast and unfamiliar world known as the Paleozoic Era Fossils from this time reveal early experiments in life including strange marine creatures tow ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...

Geologists have produced a new timeline of Earth's Paleozoic climate changes. The record shows ancient temperature variations coinciding with shifts in planet's biodiversity. The temperature of a ...

(CN) — Scientists announced a method Monday of determining the Earth’s temperature from the early Paleozoic era, allowing them to track the rise and fall of different species as the planet warmed and ...

Dec. 31—More than a decade after the last major exhibit opened at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, a new display focused on the Paleozoic era is coming soon. Some ...

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years. By Asher Elbein The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where ...

Modeling of average (left) and minimum surface temperatures during the Pennsylvanian Period. Top row shows low carbon dioxide and maximum glaciation in the southern hemisphere (Mattheus et al). A new ...

The curious minds at What If transport us to the Paleozoic Era, imagining what daily life, ecosystems, and survival would be ...

Expeditions to a remote area of Yukon, Canada, have uncovered a 120-million-year-long geological record of a time when land plants and complex animals first evolved and ocean oxygen levels began to ...

CAMBRIDGE -- The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth's temperature during the early ...