An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

As the site of Earth's oldest fossil animals, the Ediacara biota, the national park is being considered for UNESCO World ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

Researchers in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county, might also have found the answer to what happened to the first ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge ...

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living cells appeared billions of years ago? – Aayush A., age 16, India ...

One of the most intriguing questions in science is how life began on Earth. Scientists have long wondered how ... to ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

The S2 meterorite, which hit the planet just over 3 billion years ago, dwarfed the one that caused the dinosaurs' extinction, ...

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