In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

Earth's oceans may have displayed a very different color several billion years ago. This hypothesis emerges from a recent ...

Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Researchers exposed two lichen species to Mars-like atmospheric conditions for five hours—and one performed impressively.

Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae from Baltic Sea sediments, pushing the limits of resurrection ecology.

Scientists at the University of Queensland have contributed to the development of a precise timeline for bacterial evolution, indicating that some bacteria used oxygen long before they evolved the ...

Mars can host life, according to Polish researchers, after demonstrating lichen's survival under simulated Mars-like ...