The success of life in the Ordovician was driven by the availability of vast flooded continents, which formed the shallow marine habitats for a dizzying array of new and successful species
Month: February 2022
The Ingredients for Life
An Early Cambrian Success Story Published in The EarthSphere Blog. Feature Image: Jellyfish — 540 Million Years of Success: by WM House (ArcheanArt) Prologue The Forgotten Origins series has taken us into the Cambrian Period, where an explosion of life occurred in a frenzy of hyper evolution during the Early Cambrian. But why then? Why the Early Cambrian? The fossil Read More…
Climate Change Momentum
Due to climate change momentum there is a lag between stopping carbon emissions and stopping temperature increases.
Hyper Evolution
If we reduce Earth’s history to a single day, then all major branches of life appear during a five-minute interval of hyper evolution at about 9:30 in the evening.
Late Ediacaran Mass Extinction
Mass extinctions don’t require catastrophic asteroid strikes or massive outpourings of magma from the mantle; they just need biotic replacement ; by humans in the case of the Anthropocene.
The Ediacaran World
The Ediacaran was a world containing an eclectic group of organisms representing multiple evolutionary pathways, mother nature was rolling the dice to see what might turn up.
Our Common Ancestors
The Cryogenian formed a dividing line in the evolution of our biosphere. Before then, single-cell life was the rule, but afterward, complex,multi-celled organisms appeared.
The Cryogenian Big Freeze
When Earth thawed, after the Cryogenian big freeze, life had mysteriously taken a leap forward, simple animals appeared in our oceans.