Scientists have discovered that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents. Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that the ...

A new study involving an international team of researchers has found that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents. The discovery was made by ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

"This is what's driven the entire evolution of the planet through ... Another telltale hint that Earth's continents were all one land mass comes from the geologic record. Coal deposits found ...

killing off the vast majority of species from water and land over a relatively short geological interval. The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 ...

On land, Earth saw its first forests of ... including one of the five infamous 'mass extinction' events that led to the evolution of the flora and fauna we know today. Placoderms, trilobites ...