Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet came ...

The true origin of life has always been one of the greatest unknowns that we as humans have sought to learn about. From the creation of the world in the Bible to the belief that biomolecules came to ...

At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...

Living organisms arose from lifeless chemistry. But how? Perhaps the chemicals that support life as we know it also supported primordial life. If so, primordial life relied on RNA and DNA, as the RNA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists suspect that the complex life that slithers and crawls through every nook and cranny ...

Lake Magadi, a carbonate-rich lake in Kenya, has a bed made of volcanic rock and salty water rich in microbes. In a new paper just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...