Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
25 October 2018
Backbones helped vertebrates conquer the oceans and move onto land. Now a study hints they may have evolved as protection against strong waves in shallow waters
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75-million-year old ocean microbes live forever on almost zero energy
11 October 2018
There is so little food in the mud at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that individual microbes living there use just 0.00000000001 joules of energy each year
Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
23 April 2018
A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame
