Did A Cosmic Fluke Make Life On Land Possible?

Originally published: Jun 26 2014 - 1:30pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Terrestrial animals may owe a special debt to the sun and the moon. It may have been their combined pull on ancient Earth's oceans that helped primitive air-breathing fish gain a toehold on land, new research suggests.In a new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, physicist Steven Balbus argues that the gravitational forces generated by the sun and moo...