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 ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution.

Hundreds of millions of years had to pass for the continents to split apart, creating the seven land masses we know today. Earth’s mountain ... Paleo Landscape Evolution model (goSPL for short).

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions ... This event, which was caused by the evolution of photosynthetic cyanobacteria that pumped unprecedented ...

"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 ...