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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Jan 28, 2015Estudos sobre a história dos vírus na Terra podem melhorar nossa compreensão sobre a possibilidade de vida em outros lugares.
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Jan 15, 2015Life's origins are a mystery to scientists, but every year they get a little bit closer to understanding what made it possible on Earth — and possibly, other planets or moons.
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Jan 9, 2015A new study provides evidence that ribosomes, and not DNA, came first in the origin of life.
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Jan 8, 2015The discovery of ancient lake deposits in the driest part of the Saharan Desert confirms that the region was wetter in its past.
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Jan 7, 2015Rock soil droplets formed by heating most likely came from Stone Age house fires and not from a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago, according to new research.
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Dec 26, 2014Number 8 on the Astrobiology Top 10 for 2014 is a story about what Joe Biden (or at least a dwarf planet named in his honor) could teach us about the origin of life on Earth.
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Dec 20, 2014The extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is thought to have paved the way for mammals to dominate, but a new study shows that many mammals died off alongside the dinosaurs.
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Dec 17, 2014By studying how the structural components of RNA interact, and how the molecule performs the remarkable feat of self-assembling, scientists have uncovered new details about the chemical evolution of RNA.
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Dec 14, 2014Known as the 'inside-out' theory of eukaryotic cell evolution, an alternative view of how complex life came to be was published recently.
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Dec 12, 2014Scientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in North America.