Earth's 'Boring Billion': Evolution Didn't Stop, It Just Held Its Breath

The period geologists call the "Boring Billion" refers to a long time span roughly between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, during which Earth remained…

This name does not suggest that the planet was completely dead or a pile of mud where nothing happened; rather, it merely describes a temporary slowdown in pronounced surface changes and massive evolutionary…