The research aims to test their survival under Mars-like conditions and extreme cosmic radiation, contributing to the search for extraterrestrial life, according to a report from CCTV. Credit ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

The earliest signs of life on a young Earth ... come from the ocean in the form of fossilized microbes within ancient rock. Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South ...

Here's a glimpse at some of the longest-living life-forms on Earth: The average human lives for 71 years, but the oldest on official record — Jeanne Louise Calment — survived to see her 122nd ...

Ancient rocks in northwestern Canada may contain the oldest evidence of life on Earth. Scientists have discovered remains of microorganisms that likely thrived around 3.8 billion years ago near ...

The oldest known fossils, however ... Since we don’t have fossils from this time, scientists can look at life forms that still exist today in similar conditions. From these, they have suggested ...

Prelude to life (4,550-3,900 mya ... After several hundred million years of falling rain, great oceans form. 4,055 mya: Oldest known rocks Rocks older than 3,500 million years old have been ...

Fossils of the simplest organisms are found in the oldest rocks, and fossils of more ... which states that simple life forms gradually evolved into more complex ones. Evidence for early forms ...

Fossils of the simplest organisms are found in the oldest rocks, and fossils of more ... which states that simple life forms gradually evolved into more complex ones. Evidence for early forms ...