The partial pressure of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere has increased dramatically through time, and this increase is thought to have occurred in two rapid steps at both ends of the Proterozoic Eon (~2.5 ...
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 ...
Most modern marine ecology is ultimately based on unicellular phytoplankton, yet most large animals are unable to graze directly on even relatively large net phytoplankton; the repackaging effected by ...
During the Proterozoic era, oxygen produced by photosynthesizing bacteria collects in the oceans and then in the atmosphere. Iron present in exposed rocks reacts with this oxygen, and rust colors the ...
The Proterozoic Eon, spanning from 2,500 million to 539 million years ago, marked a transformative chapter in Earth's history. Often overshadowed by the more data-rich Phanerozoic Eon, this period was ...
It was long assumed that cyanobacteria were mainly responsible for fixing nitrogen on early Earth, thus making nitrogen available to the biosphere. Researchers now show that purple sulfur bacteria ...
All of the amazing riches of biodiversity we see around us exists in just a thin band of life on the surface of this planet. Estimates claim that between a third and half of all the biomass on Earth ...
Time to smash the beaker when thinking about oxygen concentrations in water, at the time when animal life first evolved. Oceans stacked oxygen here and depleted it there, as a new novel model ...
"Based on a symposium entitled 'Proterozoic crustal dynamics and lithospheric evolution' that was held during the special session on the International Lithosphere Programme at the 27th International ...