Category: What happened in Earth’s past?

This fossil is the last common ancestor of worms Ikaria wariootia, a fossil, is predicted to be 560-551 million years old and thought to be the last common ancestor of bilaterians, like worms, found in South Australia.

February 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Deniz Akbulut

Scientists found a #fossil in #SouthAustralia which can be the ancestor of all #bilaterians!

How water shaped the Earth Minerologists, geologists, astronomers, astrobiologists explain how water shaped our planet’s history by studying the types of chemical reactions where water plays a fundamental role.

November 21, 2020January 15, 2021 Romulo Cruz

Water has molded our planet into what it is today, in ways you may not have imagined! #water #waterislife

Chemicals on mineral surfaces may have jumpstarted life Researchers observed selected biological molecules multiplying and fueling their own chemistry across mineral surfaces, resembling the patterns of a living metabolism.

November 5, 2020January 15, 2021 Emily Felder

Were metabolic pathways established before life emerged? New experiments observe life-like patterns self-propagating on #mineral surfaces. #astrobiology #geobiology

Could “Fools’ Gold” have helped build the first proteins? Scientists measured the forces that allow iron pyrite to help amino acids bind to each other at the bottom of the ocean -- to understand how life may have formed a long time ago.

September 21, 2020January 15, 2021 Marcos Jusino-Maldonado

How and why humans exist are questions that have challenged different cultures ever since the dawn of civilization. Many scientists have taken upon their shoulders the duty of answering these fundamental questions, coming up with several especially creative ideas over READ MORE