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Trying To Understand The Tardigrade Body Plan

Tardigrades

Trying To Understand The Tardigrade Body Plan

Cretaceous Amber Inclusions Illuminate The Evolutionary Origin Of Tardigrades

Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology

Cretaceous Amber Inclusions Illuminate The Evolutionary Origin Of Tardigrades

Tricorder Tech: Digitizing Earth’s Fossil Record With Low-cost 3D Scanning

Away Teams & Field Reports

Tricorder Tech: Digitizing Earth’s Fossil Record With Low-cost 3D Scanning

Seawater Barium and Sulfide Removal Improved Marine Habitability for the Cambrian Explosion of Early Animals

Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology

Seawater Barium and Sulfide Removal Improved Marine Habitability for the Cambrian Explosion of Early Animals

Sediments Reveal The Ancient Ocean During a Mass Extinction Event

Extinction events

Sediments Reveal The Ancient Ocean During a Mass Extinction Event

Exploring Microbial Mat Communities In Extreme Environments

Microbiology & Virology

Exploring Microbial Mat Communities In Extreme Environments

Microfossil Qingjiangonema Sheds Light Evolution Of Sulfate-reducing Bacteria In Response To Oxygenation

Biophysics

Microfossil Qingjiangonema Sheds Light Evolution Of Sulfate-reducing Bacteria In Response To Oxygenation

Earth’s Earliest Sea Creatures Drove Evolution By Stirring The Water

Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Earth’s Earliest Sea Creatures Drove Evolution By Stirring The Water

Ancient Earth’s Ocean Oxygenation Timeline Revealed

Astrogeology

Ancient Earth’s Ocean Oxygenation Timeline Revealed

470 Million Year Old Fossil Site From Earth’s Lower Ordovician Period Uncovered In France

Fossils & Paleontology

470 Million Year Old Fossil Site From Earth’s Lower Ordovician Period Uncovered In France

Molecular Fossils Shed Light On Ancient Earth Life

Fossils & Paleontology

Molecular Fossils Shed Light On Ancient Earth Life

Rare 3D Fossils Show That Some Early Trees Had Forms Unlike Any You’ve Ever Seen

Fossils & Paleontology

Rare 3D Fossils Show That Some Early Trees Had Forms Unlike Any You’ve Ever Seen

Even The Oldest Eukaryote Fossils Show Dazzling Diversity And Complexity

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Even The Oldest Eukaryote Fossils Show Dazzling Diversity And Complexity

Studying Ancient Life in Australia To Inform Mars Exploration

Analog Studies

Studying Ancient Life in Australia To Inform Mars Exploration

Earth’s Most Ancient Impact Craters Are Disappearing

Impact events

Earth’s Most Ancient Impact Craters Are Disappearing

Sedimentary DNA Can Influence Evolution: Establishing Mineral Facilitated Horizontal Gene Transfer As A Route To Bacterial Fitness

Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics

Sedimentary DNA Can Influence Evolution: Establishing Mineral Facilitated Horizontal Gene Transfer As A Route To Bacterial Fitness

Mercury Helps to Detail Earth’s Most Massive Extinction Event

Extinction events

Mercury Helps to Detail Earth’s Most Massive Extinction Event

Biosignatures: Discovery Of Earth’s Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Biosignatures: Discovery Of Earth’s Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years

541-million-year-old 3D Fossil Algae Reveal Modern-looking Ancestry Of The Plant Kingdom

Fossils & Paleontology

541-million-year-old 3D Fossil Algae Reveal Modern-looking Ancestry Of The Plant Kingdom

Discovery Of New Types of Microfossils May Answer An Age-old Scientific Question

Fossils & Paleontology

Discovery Of New Types of Microfossils May Answer An Age-old Scientific Question