2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

Over time the two combined to produce energy-using, living cells. The earliest living organisms were microscopic bacteria, which show up in the fossil record as early as 3.4 billion years ago.

In addition, "many of the natural resources we use today came from extremophile bacteria and algae in the deep past," said New Scientist. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

The algae themselves don’t make B12, but they absorb it from their environment. “They live in a liquid culture, and there’s lots of bacteria there as well,” she says. These bacteria are ...

These common, globally distributed microbes are barely bigger than bacteria, yet they’re members of the same domain as animals ... If the authors’ conclusions are right, then these microbes are indeed ...

By analyzing certain bacteria in the Dead Sea that don’t contain cell walls, a new study theorizes how these strange microfossils came to be. While this understanding helps illustrate some of ...

Speculation about the likely cause ranged from pollution and algae to unusual bacterial infections ... which can accumulate bacteria inside it. This can cause "sea foam," which was evident on ...