New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

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Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

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Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

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Some fungi, particularly species in the order Mucorales, can change from one form to another by changing what genes they express. Mucor lusitanicus will take the form of yeast in anaerobic ...

Researchers mapped enzyme sequences from several thousand modern species onto an evolutionary tree of life. Their findings suggest that, shortly after cyanobacteria evolved the ability to produce ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...