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Fungi’s ancient origins: How they shaped life on Earth a billion years ago

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...
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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last ...

Fungi may have set the stage for life on land hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...
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Six books about the science of life on Earth

Oxford University Press; £9.99 James Lovelock, an English scientist, devoted the second half of his long life to exploring ...

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.
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Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should ...

Moon of Saturn could be suitable for life. Scientists found new evidence to confirm it

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have ...
New Scientist

NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are promising

A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now ...
Scientific American

This Rock May Hold Proof of Life on Mars

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...
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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation. Further ...
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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that ...