NASA-supported researchers have provided new insights into microorganisms that survive on products from serpentinization reactions.
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Fossils Explain The Evolution Of Earth Life During The Early Cambrian Period
Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life.
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Serpentine Rocks Provide Evidence Of Fossil Life On Earth
In the Hajar Mountains of Oman is a large slab of oceanic crust consisting of serpentinized ultramafic rocks, the largest exposure of such rocks on Earth’s surface. These distinctive rocks […]
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Discovery Of New Types of Microfossils May Answer An Age-old Scientific Question
Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. A collaborative research team from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo may have provided some […]
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Discovery Of 'Ghost' Fossils Reveals Plankton Resilience To Past Global Warming Events
An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum (London) and the University of Florence have found a remarkable type […]
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Fossil Snail Shells Offer New Tool For Analyzing Ancient Ocean Chemistry
A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world’s deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. Instead of showing […]
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DNA In Archaeological Sediments
The analysis of ancient DNA preserved in sediments is an emerging technology allowing for the detection of the past presence of humans and other animals at archaeological sites. Yet, little […]
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Cellular Remains in A ~3.42-billion-year-old Subseafloor Hydrothermal Environment
While Earth may have been a habitable planet long before the Paleoarchean Era [3.6 to 3.2 billion years ago (Ga)], as rocks of this age retain a diversity of fossil […]
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Fossil Secret May Shed Light On The Diversity Of Earth's First Animals
A large group of iconic fossils widely believed to shed light on the origins of many of Earth’s animals and the communities they lived in may be hiding a secret. […]
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Microscopic Fossils Record Ancient Climate Conditions
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and reptiles appeared and the chemistry […]