Articles by

Michael Marshall

Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas

Over 600 million years ago, most of Earth completely froze over, becoming “Snowball Earth.” But even during...

How these strange cells may explain the origin of complex life

Citations R.B. Pedersen et al. Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the...

Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores

A new climate record suggests that Homo floresiensis — pint-size human relatives nicknamed “hobbits” — endured thousands...

A drowned landscape held clues to the lives of ancient human relatives

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus...

Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones...