News About The Primordial Earth 20-NOV-09 en-us College Station, Texas (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they've discovered Earth's climate was much cooler than thought billions of years ago, which may mean life developed earlier than thought.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009 - Haze in the early Earth atmosphere could have played a crucial role in the origin of life. By forming a protective shield, the haze would have safeguarded organic substances from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.]]> Portsmouth, England (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 - Fossils of a flying reptile found in China reveal a strangely disjointed creature, British paleontologists say.]]> Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2009 - Paleontologists in east China may have discovered the remains of a new species of dinosaur at what is said to be the world's largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones, state media said Wednesday.]]> London (UPI) Sep 23, 2009 - The International Commission on Stratigraphy says it has revised the date of the start of Earth's prehistoric Quaternary Period by 800,000 years.]]> Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 18, 2009 - German scientists investigating the complex chemical mixture thought to be present in the early Earth's oceans have found that amino acids can be 'cooked' into many other important chemical building blocks of life when embedded in salt crusts. Results of the laboratory experiments will be presented by Stefan Fox at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany.]]> Chicago (AFP) Sept 17, 2009 - A relatively tiny new ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in China, researchers said Thursday.]]> MOffett Feild CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2009 - When planet Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the sun was faint and young. So faint that it should not have been able to keep the oceans of Earth from freezing. But fortunately for the creation of life, water was kept liquid on our young planet.]]> Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 26, 2009 - When Planet Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the sun was faint and young. So faint that it should not have been able to keep the oceans of earth from freezing. But fortunately for the creation of life, water was kept liquid on our young planet.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 - A new study shows that new species of life on Earth emerge just as often as they die out, and that most evolution occurs in small bursts. The research has implications in understanding the history of life on our planet and the evolutionary processes that will shape the biosphere's future on Earth.]]>