Rare 2.5-billion-year-old rocks reveal hot spot of sulfur-breathing bacteria
November 6, 2014
Wriggle your toes in a marsh's mucky bottom sediment and you'll probably inhale a rotten egg smell, the distinctive odor of hydrogen sulfide gas. That's the biochemical signature of sulfur-using bacteria, one of Earth's most ...
A window on Earth's first life forms—finding more stromatolites
November 3, 2016
Stromatolites have been discovered beyond the well-researched south-east corner of Hamelin Pool, in Shark Bay Western Australia, according to a researcher from Bush Heritage.
Team says life in Earth's soils may be older than believed
November 17, 2016
Way before trees or lichens evolved, soils on Earth were alive, as revealed by a close examination of microfossils in the desert of northwestern Australia, reports a team of University of Oregon researchers.
Scientists discover organism that hasn't evolved in more than 2 billion years
February 3, 2015
(Phys.org)—An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers ...
Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do it
March 15, 2016
Most modern bacteria descended from ancestors who could convert the Sun's energy to fuel more than 3.5 billion years ago.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-11-geologist-uncovers-billion-year-old-fossils-bacteria.html#jCp
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