The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No […]
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North China Fossils Show Eukaryotes First Acquired Multicellularity 1.63 Billion Years Ago
In a study published in Science Advances on Jan. 24, researchers led by Prof. ZHU Maoyan from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences […]
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Away Teams On Earth: Biosignatures From Feathers Reveal Traces Of Ancient Dinosaur Proteins
Editor’s note: we currently have three rovers on Mars – and other in orbit – searching in one way or another for biosignatures – chemical and/or geological traces that life […]
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The Evolution Of Photosynthesis Documented By Thylakoids In Fossil Cyanobacteria
Researchers at the University of Liège (ULiège) have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old.
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Trilobite Fossils Help Draw A Map Of Early Earth
Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography.
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Hapalosiphonacean Cyanobacteria (Nostocales) Thrived Amid Emerging Embryophytes In An Early Devonian (407-million-year-old) Landscape
Cyanobacteria have a long evolutionary history, well documented in marine rocks. They are also abundant and diverse in terrestrial environments; however, although phylogenies suggest that the group colonized land early […]
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New Microfossils Suggest An Earlier Rise In Complex Life On Earth
Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team […]
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Bizarre New Fossils Shed Light On Ancient Plankton
A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago.
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Biosignatures: Discovery Of Earth’s Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years
Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time – opening a ‘game-changing’ new chapter in the history of evolution.
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541-million-year-old 3D Fossil Algae Reveal Modern-looking Ancestry Of The Plant Kingdom
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early […]