Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved Microbes shed light on how our single-celled ancestors mixed viral DNA into their own genetic code Date: July 16, 2024 Source: Queen Mary ...

Fossil tracks from 545 million years ago suggest complex life forms were already crawling around before the Cambrian ...

A unique event of underwater volcanic activity caused continents to collide and produce nutrient-rich regions that could ...

Scientists created the little gingerbread-looking man by cultivating 100,000 0.1mm balls of collagen, each coated with dozens of skin cells and dropping them inside a doll-shaped mold for a day ...

Created by a mutually beneficial relationship between fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria, lichens are complex organisms ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.