Researchers investigate into the various lineages of Asgard archae, and determine one related to Hods as the ancestor of ...

Life on Earth. Where did it come from? How long has it existed here? While we're still searching for the answers to one of those questions, scientists think they might have discovered the answer to ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most scientists agree that complex life likely formed during the Ediacaran Period some 600 million years ...

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed. The research sheds new light on the conditions needed for early organisms to ...

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's history than we thought. A new study tracing the earliest steps toward ...

Life on Earth began simply. For billions of years, tiny microbes ruled the planet. Then, one day in deep time, something changed. Cells gained a nucleus, built inner compartments and learned to ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new study by Dr Nick Lane, from UCL (University College London), ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

Most scientists agree that complex life likely formed during the Ediacaran Period some 600 million years ago—right on the cusp of the well-known Cambrian Explosion. However, a new study suggests that ...