Origin of Life Archives

Scientists Find Potential “Missing Link” in Chemistry That Led to Life...

November 7, 2017

Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?

July 18, 2017

Volcanoes: Referees for the life on Earth

June 3, 2017

Sea level as a metronome of Earth’s history

May 19, 2017

Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian...

May 10, 2017

Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate

March 2, 2017

Study breathes new life into 2.3 billion year old ‘Great Oxidation...

February 8, 2017

Rare meteorites challenge our understanding of the solar system

January 24, 2017

Asteroid impacts could create niches for early life, suggests Chicxulub crater...

November 18, 2016

Study finds Earth’s soils hosted life early

November 18, 2016

‘False’ biosignatures may complicate search for ancient life on Earth, other...

November 7, 2016

Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought

November 7, 2016

Did Meteorites Bring Life’s Phosphorus to Earth?

October 30, 2016

Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,’ and the possibility of life

September 21, 2016

New discovery shatters previous beliefs about Earth’s origin

September 15, 2016

The Origin of Life: RNA World Deep Beneath the Surface

September 9, 2016

Arctic gives clues on worst mass extinction of life

August 25, 2016

Earth interacted with supernova remnants for 1 million years

August 11, 2016

How China is rewriting the book on human origins

July 17, 2016

Rock salt holds the key to a paradigm shift

July 15, 2016

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Giant ‘megalodon’ shark extinct earlier than previously thought

February 16, 2019

Opposing mountain ranges

August 2, 2016

New species of duckbilled dinosaur neatly fills an evolutionary gap

November 13, 2015

Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan tsunami

March 17, 2020

A deep, dark mystery: New discoveries about the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los...

June 30, 2015

Strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil hints at rapid evolution after mass extinction

May 23, 2016

Origin of Life

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

Less life: Limited phosphorus recycling suppressed early Earth’s biosphere

Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life, researchers find