The first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains. Life has found a home on Earth for around 4 billion years. That's a significant ...

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical and morphological traces, such as chemical compounds or structures that ...

Evidence was found in marine sedimentary rocks near Gabon in Central Africa. A team of international researchers has challenged the long-held belief that complex life forms first emerged on Earth 635 ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Stromatolites are the earliest geological record of life on Earth. These curious biotic structures are made of algae carpets growing toward the light and precipitating carbonates.

A free lecture about the vital and continuing role of microbiomes, the first forms of life on planet Earth, will take place at the end of this month. The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce ...

An analysis of volcanic rocks has revealed large quantities of nitrogen compounds that were almost certainly formed by volcanic lightning. This process could have provided the nitrogen required for ...

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