Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, ...

The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery. Cosmic dust may have helped to kick-start life on Earth, new ...

The most complex living things were colonies of microbes such as stromatolites and microbial ... raw material that permitted the evolution of ever more complex life. That was not the end of ...

3,500 mya: Oldest fossils Stromatolites appear offshore as distinctive mounds or dome-shaped formations and are the oldest conclusive evidence of bacterial life. As photosynthesizing bacteria ...

These are preserved examples of what are called stromatolites ... among the earliest traces of life on our planet. Dr Keyron Hickman-Lewis, from London's Natural History Museum (NHM), and ...

The history of life on Earth extends far beyond the dinosaurs and ancient mammals that usually come to mind when we think of fossils. Believe it or not, scientists have actually found signs of ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

Chief minister Prem Singh Tamang has called the discovery 'groundbreaking' and stated that his government will soon transform ...

There are only a few locations on Earth where the organisms that contributed to the development of complex life still exist. Lee Stocking Island is one of them. The organisms are stromatolites.

That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life history, which is so vast that those ...

Aug. 2, 2024 — The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team has demonstrated a ...

Among the continuing mysteries in science is the quest for understanding how complex life emerged from the basic elements of the earth. Of all the elements, the one most directly associated with ...