The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

Although these new life-forms spread worldwide ... The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years, are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings.

The paper shows how Earth's earliest life forms—microbes such as O 2-producing bacteria and methane-producing archaea—shaped, and were shaped by, changes in the oceans, continents, and atmosphere.

If you think living to 100 is impressive, think again. Here's a glimpse at some of the longest-living life-forms on Earth: The average human lives for 71 years, but the oldest on official record ...

multicelled life-forms almost four billion years later. What Was Happening on Earth at This Time The Precambrian is the earliest of the geologic ages, which are marked by different layers of ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

If liquid water and elevated crust existed so early in Earth’s history ... but the evidence from Greenland hints that these life forms could have been photosynthetic, thriving in light-filled ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

Why it's incredible: The rock formations contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth. The Bungle Bungles are a collection of sandstone towers with distinctive orange and dark-gray stripes ...