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Extensive new evidence from South Africa suggests that 3.5 billion years ago, Earth was locked in a cold spell, with isolated blasts of hydrothermal heat that may have helped incubate life.

A team of scientists discovered an untouched region on Earth that could provide them with a window to life on the planet 3.5 billion years ago.

Scientists discover how life on Earth began 1.75 billion years ago. ... dated to 1.75 billion years ago, ... which only documented thylakoids in fossils 150 to 550 million years old.

This ancient part of the Earth’s crust has been found in previous research to date back to 3.5 billion years ago. The craton’s oldest rock assemblages are largely volcanic and sedimentary ...

In a first, scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of an archaic human relative that lived up to 3.5 ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that an isolated pocket of complex life may have evolved on Earth more than 2 billion years ago – only to go extinct and take another 1.5 billion years to ...

Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the planet formed — a mere blink of an eye in geologic time. Researchers analyzed oxygen molecules within 4 ...

The bones date to around 3.5 million years ago during the Pliocene epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago). ... He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series.

The shatter cones offer "unequivocal evidence" of a very high-speed impact about 3.47 billion years ago, the researchers said. The meteorite likely struck Earth at more than 22,370 miles per hour ...