Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

Inside a hillside cave, researchers have unearthed a million-year-old ecological time capsule that offers a rare snapshot ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than previously documented; Combining chemistry and AI, pioneering method could revolutionize search for ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to life in modern laboratories, turning a frozen time capsule into a live ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Looking for the best books on Ancient Egypt? Here’s our curated reading list – from beginner-friendly texts to academic classics and engrossing novels.

Sean McMahon has previously received funding from NASA. Just over a year ago, Nasa made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life on Mars. Now, the ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and Harvard University reveals that 1.5–18 million-year-old mammalian fossils from Kenya contain proteins in their enamel that ...

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