Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Looking at stromatolites, which were the first life forms on Earth, before our planet even had an oxygenated atmosphere, is a most promising avenue. More information: Volker Vahrenkamp et al ...

If the first life forms on Earth were not bound by a preference for “left-handed” amino acids and “right-handed” sugars, then the molecular structures of early life could have been much ...

The Earth was already more than 600 million years ... A pink sponge, photographed at an aquarium today, is not unlike one of the first life forms that appeared in the Precambrian era.

From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through to plants photosynthesising, bacterial evolution, marine life ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought ... simple animal-like life forms such as those found in the fossils from this period," said Chi Fru. The underwater volcanoes also ...

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