Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

dating from the very dawn of complex life on earth more than 500 million years ago. Their very names—Hallucigenia, Anomalocaris—testify to their strangeness. For decades they have fired the ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4. ... a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth.

As per The Conversation, the sun will get brighter as it ages, which might turn our waters purple. Evidently, however, the ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been ... Most of the available information suggests that early Earth didn't have a huge supply of these complex molecules, if any at all, but it ...