Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist?

Billions of years ago, Earth was home to extreme environments, including intense UV radiation, frequent volcanic eruptions, ...

Determining how far back in Earth’s history life took root has been an immense ... Appearing to show fossilized microbial structures called stromatolites, the artifacts were held for decades ...

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 ...

The geological history of these rocks was relatively benign with ... energy that may have led by paths unknown and to be investigated, to the first life forms, the stromatolites and their bacterial ...

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 origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs, Whose Tale Is Intertwined With Climate Change and Human Culture Oct. 30, 2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs ...

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 ...