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 14, 2012A new concept is challenging one of the basic assumptions of the theory of evolution - that survival is based on a change's functional advantage if it is to persist. -
Sep 29, 2012New research on a lizard-like amphibian highlights how difficult it would be for humans to regenerate a limb or organ. -
Sep 28, 2012New research supports the idea that microorganisms embedded in the fragments of distant planets may have traveled to the early Earth and seeded our planet with life. -
Sep 26, 2012Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria in the ocean. -
Sep 21, 2012In order to understand how life began on Earth, researchers are creating concoctions of organics on ice and zapping them with lasers. The study provides the first look at organic chemistry on icy particles in the frigid reaches of our solar system. -
Sep 16, 2012Sixty-five million years ago, a mass extinction on Earth wiped out the dinosaurs. New research now indicates that a separate extinction event occurred shortly before that, triggered by volcanic eruptions that warmed the planet. -
Sep 15, 2012A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms. The study could have important implications in our understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth. -
Sep 9, 2012A new study shows how tiny sea creatures called rhabdopleurids have survived for more than 500 million years and outlasted more elaborate species that descended from a common ancestor. -
Aug 26, 2012A paleontologist has confirmed that two nodosaurs walked through the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. They left their prints sometime between 110 and 112 million years ago. -
Aug 23, 2012Phosphorus is vital to life on Earth, even though our planet doesn't provide life very much phosphorus to work with. Scientists are now studying how phosphorus biochemistry may have originated at the dawn of life.
