Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Single-celled microbes are believed to be Earth’s earliest life forms, but their soft bodies left almost no fossil evidence behind. Recent research ...
Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.
Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already reached a surprising level of complexity. At that time lived the last universal ...
Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...
How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what ...
As Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday, new PBS documentary delves into his life and career.