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The organism from which all modern life is descended is called the last universal common ancestor - and scientists are still trying to figure out what it was like.
Enigmatic organisms called archaea can harvest energy from hydrogen, and new research is revealing exactly how they do it.
Ever been made to feel small? Here’s why being petite is no bad thing.
Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes, viruses and prions existing today.
Current plans for lunar exploration may end up destroying ancient, genetic samples from Earth that have ended up on the moon.
Using the family relationships between single-celled protists alive today, researchers hypothesized what their evolutionary ancestors looked like – and then looked in the fossil record for matches.
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