Ancient Crater Lakes May Have Provided Ideal Conditions for Earth’s Earliest Oxygen-Breathing Life
Researchers have discovered stromatolites — layered structures formed by microbial communities — inside a 42,000-year-old asteroid crater in…
Ancient Bacteria Turned a DNA System Into a Cell Skeleton
Fluorescently labeled CorM filaments inside Anabaena. These represent a newly discovered cytoskeleton in multicellular cyanobacteria. Credit: © Loose…
Aerobic Respiration Began Much Earlier Than We Thought
Original story from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA). Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier…
Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere | MIT News
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. It…