The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before vaguely humanoid primates, proto-mammals, or fish that crawled out of the ocean to become the first terrestrial animals, our earliest ancestors were microbes ...

Fabian Weston makes videos of tiny organisms filmed under a microscope. One of his videos provided the missing piece to link 400-year-old fossils with living euglenoids. Euglenoids may be some of the ...

For more than 1 billion years, Earth’s waterways and oceans have been home to a collection of rocks. Nestled at the floor of of the water, these formations have grown over time, stumping scientists ...

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In a study published in Science Advances on Jan. 24, researchers led by Prof. ZHU Maoyan from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported their ...

Compounds from 1.6 billion years ago reveal a microbial transition that set the stage for much of today's life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The origin of organisms with complex cells, known as eukaryotes, is one of the most crucial parts of life’s evolutionary story. All animals, plants, and fungi are eukaryotes, and if complex cells had ...

A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E. Credit: DALL-E / Harrison Tasoff The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia's Northern Territory; it'll set again in ...

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...