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Across Earth’s many landscapes and oceans, life has formed in patterns that might not be obvious at first. While it may seem like species are scattered randomly, a new global study suggests there’s an ...
Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...
A simple rule that seems to govern how life is organized on Earth is described in a new study published in Nature Ecology & ...
In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...
Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...
A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...
The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...
The Ordovician Period was around 485 to 444 million years ago and had a thriving ecosystem beneath the water, before fauna ...