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Earth's Magnetic Field Almost Collapsed 565 Million Years Ago Our planet's core probably started solidifying in the late Ediacaran period, which recharged the magnetic field in the nick of time. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kpywp/earths-magnetic-field-collapse-ediacaran-core-solidification https://www.newsweek.com/earth-magnetic-field-collapse-inner-core-solid-geodynamo-solar-wind-1307659 The (paywalled) papers are: Richard K. Bono, John A. Tarduno, Francis Nimmo & Rory D. Cottrell 2019. Young inner core inferred from Ediacaran ultra-low geomagnetic field intensity. Nature Geoscience 12, pages 143–147. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0288-0 Peter Driscoll, Geodynamo recharged Nature Geoscience 12, pages 83–84 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0301-2 It is strange how so many odd things occurred during the Ediacaran period. One question is how did this along with everything else did or did not affect evolution of plants and animals? Yours, Paul H.