Origin and evolution of life
Discover evolution of life on earth, plant evolution, sea animals evolution, bird evolution, silicon based life, multicellular life, world’s oldest fossils, animal biodiversity, bacterial life, bird like dinosaurs, rare ancient worms, animal speciation. Also get to know about Earth’s earliest life and how photosynthesis began producing oxygen billion years ago.
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Sep 22, 2018Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to -
Sep 21, 2018Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and future of life on Earth and beyond, is a multidisciplinary field that has expanded rapidly over the last two decades. Now, a consortium of organisations has announced plans to establish a European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) to coordinate -
Sep 14, 2018If RNA came before DNA, then what came before RNA? -
Sep 9, 2018A study of a songbird and a bacterium that infects it has revealed how species in conflict evolve in response to each other. -
Sep 6, 2018Life’s phosphorus has its origins in meteorites from the outer Solar System. -
Sep 5, 2018A new study sheds light on the origins and evolution of animal body plans. -
Sep 1, 2018Researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple protein catalysts - essential for cells, the building blocks of life, to function - may have existed when life began. -
Aug 31, 2018The stepwise oxygenation of the atmosphere boosted the evolution of complex life. -
Aug 27, 2018Bacterial classification has been given a complete makeover by a team of University of Queensland researchers, using an evolutionary tree based on genome sequences. -
Aug 26, 2018Scientists describe a transitional root fossils from the earliest land ecosystem that sheds light on how roots have evolved.
