Few questions in the history of science eclipse the all-important investigation into how life first formed on Earth ... with iron-sulfide clusters in all forms of life, hinting that these minerals ...
In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...
The first multicelled animals appeared in the fossil record almost 600 million years ago. Known as the Ediacarans, these bizarre creatures bore little resemblance to modern life-forms. They grew ...
Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...