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

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on ...

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

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

New fossil evidence suggests the Cambrian Explosion, once thought to have occurred 530 million years ago, may have begun 15 million years earlier.

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

Got a problem with invasive ground cover weeds in your yard? Learn which plants are a problem and how to stop them in their ...

Microbiota Vault Initiative preserves crucial microbes from humans, animals, and environments to prevent future health crises ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

The deep-sea environment comprises a wealth of distinct ecosystems, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and subsurface habitats. A multitude of bacteria and archaea live in these distant niches ...

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