One billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even if you were to go sightseeing during this period, you’d be grossly ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and evolutionary resilience. Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of ...

Starting roughly 1.8 billion years ago and continuing for a "Boring Billion" years hence, life on Earth was slimy, and evolution stagnated. When the first eukaryotic organisms evolved many millennia ...

A new discovery of 1.5 billion-year-old foot-long fossils challenges scientists' conception of a time known as "the boring billion." ...

Earth’s ‘boring billion’ years blamed on sulfur-loving microbes. A new study suggests these organisms could have kept oxygen levels low and waters toxic, stalling the evolution of complex life.

This article was originally published with the title “ Implement for Boring in the Earth ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 10 No. 22 (February 1855), p. 172 doi:10.1038 ...

Earth’s long history starts with an epic preamble: A collision with a Mars-sized space rock rips into the young planet and jettisons debris that forms the moon. Over the next few billion years, plot ...