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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Oct 4, 2018researchers have pioneered ground-breaking technology that could – for the first time – provide experimental evidence of how life was formed on the early Earth and show whether life could have emerged elsewhere in the universe. -
Oct 1, 2018The oldest skeleton remains known to fossil chronicle of the Earth belonged to the microorganisms that lived 700-650 million years ago. -
Sep 28, 2018Phosphates, a key building block for life, was found to be generated in outer space and delivered to early Earth by meteorites or comets. -
Sep 27, 2018When it comes to changing their passwords, bacteria are just as bad as you and me — maybe even worse. A Carnegie Mellon University research team has found that despite 2.7 billion years of evolution, bacteria are still using the same “password” to initiate the -
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 -
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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.
