The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

This new method found traces of life in rocks dating back more than 3.3 billion years and detected signs of oxygen-producing ...

Researchers from Carnegie Institution for Science find photosynthesis was taking place 800 million years earlier than ...

Fungi live in all corners of the world. They live in soil, float in the air, and thrive in oceans. They recycle nutrients, form alliances with plants, and sometimes infect them with disease. Though ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

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