10 Extinct Mammals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Charles November 13, 2016 Earth When it comes to long-extinct animals, it tends to be dinosaurs that get all the attention. Nonetheless, some of the extinct mammals that lived millions of years past are no less impressive than the ancestors t... Read More...
Archean Earth – Signs of Life Charles November 11, 2016 Earth The Archean Aeon 4 to 2.5 Billion Years Ago An artist's impression of a typical scene from the mid- to late-Archean when microbial colonies had begun to establish themselves, even though volcanism wa... Read More...
Info Bites: 10 Fascinating Facts about the Carboniferous Period Charles November 9, 2016 Earth, Listicles 3 A diorama depicting a typical Carboniferous rain forest scene. 359 million years ago, one of the five major extinction events that shaped the Earth’s evolution hailed in the end of the Devonian period. ... Read More...
Info Bites: 10 Casualties of the Holocene Extinction Event Charles November 6, 2016 Earth, Listicles In this week's Info Bites, we'll be taking a look at ten of the many casualties of the so-called Holocene extinction event, circa 11,700 BC to present, something that, sadly, we are partially responsible for. ... Read More...
Hadean Earth – The Violent Creation of Our World Charles November 2, 2016 Earth, Series The Hadean Aeon 4.54 to 4 Billion Years Ago The Earth during the Late Heavy Bombardment was a truly formidable place. In the first article of a series entitled ‘A Journey through the History of E... Read More...
Info Bites: 10 Amazing Facts about Dinosaurs You Probably Didn’t Know About Charles October 29, 2016 Earth, Listicles For more than a hundred years, dinosaurs have captured imaginations and spawned an entire sub-genre of fiction. However, the dinosaurs portrayed by 1993’s Jurassic Park or even the much more recent Jurassic Wor... Read More...
Fascinating Facts about the Cretaceous Mass Extinction Charles October 26, 2016 Earth An artist's impression of Cretaceous megafauna. Left to right: chasmosaurus, lambeosaurus, styracosaurus and ankylosaurus. These species were likely among the first casualties of the Cretaceous extinction ... Read More...
Info Bites: 5 of the Most Remarkable Animals that Ever Lived Charles October 23, 2016 Earth, Listicles In this week’s Info Bites, we’ll be taking a brief look at some of the most remarkable animals that ever lived. The natural world, both past and present, is never lacking in creativity and strangeness. There ar... Read More...
