Scientists have reconstructed the composition of the Earth's atmosphere of the last ... "We do not want to negate the influence of oxygen for the evolution of life in general with our study ...

A new study, employing NASA's planetary modeling, predicts Earth's oxygen will vanish in roughly one billion years, much ...

Figure 1: Evolution of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen content ... Through this window, we can view an ocean and atmosphere that were mostly oxygen-starved for almost 90% of Earth’s history.

The first, high resolution continuous record of oxygen concentration in the earth’s atmosphere shows that ... Over the Past 205 Million Years and the Evolution of Large Placental Mammals ...

Earth’s early atmosphere was stuffed with oxygen ... and we're pretty convinced now that it was their evolution that bumps up oxygen levels to a level that we could breathe,” said Mills.

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

These stromatolite fossils give us clues for the first signs of oxygen production on Earth ... the atmosphere for more complex eukaryotes such as land plants and animals to begin their evolution ...

Before the GOE, Earth’s atmosphere occasionally experienced ... in the ocean played a central role in the evolution of atmospheric oxygen. However, we think this would not have immediately ...

[Related: Here’s how life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water] Indeed, after the Earth formed, its early atmosphere ... how oxygen trends left ripple effects on the evolution ...

Today, oxygen makes up around a fifth of Earth’s atmosphere, with most of it produced ... these molecules would have been critical to early evolution because they can damage DNA and other ...

This increase in oxygen is associated with the evolution of some ... in the level of oxygen in the atmosphere and oceans. Main image, an illustration shows the Earth's magnetic field.