Advanced tools and expanded fossil datasets have painted a clearer picture of the eukaryotic diversity of the Proterozoic eon, which has been hard to quantify. The findings show that Earth's severe ...

A study suggests that around 1 billion years ago, photosynthetic primary producers were likely too small to support the development of animal ecosystems. Approximately between 1.8 and 0.8 billion ...

The way amino acids are synthesized has changed during the history of Earth. The Hadean eon represents the time from which Earth first formed. The subsequent Archean eon (approximately 3,500 million ...

This trilogy consists of 3 x 30 HD episodes that cover the history of our planet and the most ancient life on it during the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons (from 4.6 billion years ago until 500 ...

Proterozoic rivers flowed through barren landscapes, and lacked interactions with macroscopic organisms. It is widely held that, in the absence of vegetation, fluvial systems featured barely ...

This trilogy consists of 3 episodes that cover the history of our planet and the most ancient life on it during the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons (from 4.6 billion years ago until 500 million ...