Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A vital plant protein, the Auxin Response Factor (ARF), originated over 600 million years ago from a unicellular ancestor, predating the first plants. This ...

According to Live Science, the lakes formed about 20,000 years ago because of a hotspot beneath the supercontinent of Pangaea that existed 300 million years ago. The supercontinent broke apart to ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

New evidence reveals that Homo erectus could survive in extreme environments like deserts over 1.2 million years ago, challenging the notion that only Homo sapiens were ... Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao and ...

This remarkably successful species survived for over 1.5 million years, far longer than our own species has existed, before going extinct around 110,000 years ago. During their long tenure on Earth, ...

Scientists have now retrieved the longest such documentation — an ice core nearly 2 miles long that captures about 1.2 million years of climate information. This record can help us better understand ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest tools ever used on Earth, and they weren’t created by direct human ancestors ... which was a pre-human species that lived over three million years ...

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The study, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment ... the world shows Homo erectus adapted at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged.