The chart shows the relative ups and downs in ... organisms credited for ushering in a whole new era for life on Earth, ...

The chart shows the relative ups and downs in ... organisms credited for ushering in a whole new era for life on Earth, including animals, plants, and fungi. "This is the most comprehensive ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

This research enriches our understanding of life’s early history and offers a new lens to view Earth's evolutionary tapestry. By extending the “chart of life” back nearly two billion years ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Abderrazzak El Albani Life on Earth looks good for its age. Newly discovered fossil records hint that mold-like unicellular organisms — the common ancestor to all complex life on our planet ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth. One of the most fundamental questions in science is how ...