A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have identified chemical fossils that may have been left by ancient sponges in rocks more ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Scientists discovered chemical fossils in ancient rocks that suggest sea sponges were among the first animals to live on Earth.

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

New research from the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo suggests iron-rich ecosystems played a ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...