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99 percent of all life on Earth was lost between 2.4 and 2 billion years ago due to the Great Oxidation Event caused by oxygenic photosynthesis.
A large team of Spanish conquistadors hacks through dense vegetation in Highland Guatemala in 1576 to catalog newly conquered provinces.
Over 60,000 man-made structures were identified in the Yucatan Peninsula using LiDAR technology, revealing a vast ancient Mayan civilization.
A Spanish monk named Avendano stumbled upon the ruins of Tikal in 1695, a city that had once ruled a vast empire of the Maya civilization.
On March 21, the sun creates a light phenomenon at Chichen Itza, symbolizing the descent of the god Kukulcan to Earth.
A series of caves near the village of Tatsi Bichin contains carved stone heads and broken pillars with 1,900-year-old Mayan inscriptions.
In 1521, the Aztec Empire fell after being overthrown by Spanish conquistadors, aided by Malinche, a young indigenous woman who served as a translator.
50 to 70 new dinosaur species are named each year, revealing new insights into the lives of these ancient creatures and their environments.
A 110-mile-wide crater in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula marks the site of an asteroid impact that caused the extinction of 75% of life on Earth 66 million years ago.
