When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

In this collection, we highlight studies that represent new frontiers of geobiology, including novel microbial metabolisms, new field sites, and emerging questions about microbe-Earth interactions ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

If verified, these fossils would surpass 3.7-billion-year-old microbial mats found in Greenland as the oldest known traces of life. ... Among the oldest known fragments of Earth, ...

Microbial mats are highly organised, ... Their study not only offers insights into modern ecosystem functioning but also provides analogues for some of Earth’s earliest life forms, ...

During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be communities of bacteria clinging to the rocks.