Articles for tag: AncientEarth, Astrobiology, GeologicalHistory, MeteorImpact

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Huge Meteor Impact 3 Billion Years Ago May Have Spurred Evolution

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture Earth three billion years ago: no forests, no animals, no blue sky as we know it – just a restless ocean world under a dimmer Sun. Into that fragile, microbial planet, a rock from space the size of a small city may have slammed down with unimaginable force, boiling oceans, shaking continents, and ...