A Brief History of Earth

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Distant Asteroid Calamity Shaped Life on Earth 466 Million Years Ago: Study

Will Dunham 19/09/2019

Dust spawned by a collision in the asteroid belt...

Credit: Ita Mehrotra

A Brief History of Earth: The Rock From Space That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs – and Much Else

Sandhya Ramesh 06/02/2017

The asteroid chunk was nearly 15 km in diameter...

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A Brief History of Earth: The Triassic, a Time for New Beginnings and a Few Endings

Sandhya Ramesh 28/09/2016

In the Triassic period, life slowly bloomed into some...

Credit: Ita Mehrotra

A Brief History of Earth: The Time Our Planet Brought Hell Down Upon Its Life

Sandhya Ramesh 23/08/2016

The Permian-Triassic extinction event rendered Earth so barren in...

Credit: Ita Mehrotra

A Brief History of Earth: the Lives and Time of the Carboniferous

Sandhya Ramesh 31/07/2016

Life recovered from the mass extinctions in this period,...

The Pāhoehoe lava flow, Hawaii. Credit: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A Brief History of Earth: Dancing With Complex Life and Continents in the Devonian

Sandhya Ramesh 11/07/2016

A series exploring the natural history of Earth, beginning...

Hubbard glacier, Alaska. Credit: robertraines/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Brief History of Earth: The Lives and Times of the First Ice Ages

Sandhya Ramesh 21/06/2016

A series exploring the natural history of Earth, beginning...