The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

More information: Timothy W. Lyons et al, Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life, Nature Reviews Microbiology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41579-024-01044-y Provided by University ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is ...

Montana Tech researchers have a new scientific article out, detailing how samples taken from hot springs at Yellowstone ...

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...

But as far as we can tell, only life on Earth survives today; the reason, according to the Bottleneck Hypothesis, is that early life on Earth evolved rapidly, releasing large amounts of gases like ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

It records a critical milestone in Earth's history, when the atmosphere was changing rapidly and atmospheric oxygen was increasing - a key indication that primitive life on Earth was blooming ...

Time, water, and geologic forces have converged to create underwater sinkholes where oxygen-poor and sulfur-rich groundwater support prolific microbial mats resembling life on early Earth.