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Rock salt holds the key to a paradigm shift

Geology Page - July 15, 2016

Reconstructed ancient ocean reveals secrets about the origin of life

Ancient Minerals: Which Gave Rise to Life?

The Origin of Life: RNA World Deep Beneath the Surface

Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks

New evidence emerges on the origins of life

Geology Page - June 2, 2015

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Surprising source for ancient life biomarker found

Geology Page - October 20, 2015

Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate

Geology Page - March 2, 2017

New discovery shatters previous beliefs about Earth’s origin

Geology Page - September 15, 2016

Examining how terrestrial life’s building blocks may have first formed

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

Asteroid impacts could create niches for early life, suggests Chicxulub crater...

Geology Page - November 18, 2016

Ancient alga knew how to survive on land before it left...

Geology Page - October 6, 2015

Origins of Life: New Model May Explain Emergence of Self-Replication on...

Geology Page - July 29, 2015

The Origin of Life: RNA World Deep Beneath the Surface

Geology Page - September 9, 2016

How and why single cell organisms evolved into multicellular life

Geology Page - April 26, 2016

Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life, Astrobiologists...

Geology Page - June 11, 2013

Oxygen was present in the atmosphere much earlier than previously assumed

Geology Page - February 20, 2016

‘False’ biosignatures may complicate search for ancient life on Earth, other...

Geology Page - November 7, 2016

Geologists focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life...

Geology Page - December 16, 2015

Trilobite, Ordovician fossils

Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life, researchers find

Geology Page - November 21, 2017

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

Geology Page - January 3, 2018

Study finds Earth’s soils hosted life early

Geology Page - November 18, 2016

Reconstructed ancient ocean reveals secrets about the origin of life

Geology Page - April 26, 2014

Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,’ and the possibility of life

Geology Page - September 21, 2016

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This two-billion-year-old shungite records evidence for balmy, oxygen-rich conditions on the early Earth. Credit: K. Paiste.

Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth 2 billion years...

May 12, 2020

Rainwater discovered at new depths, with high pressure and temperatures over...

July 17, 2014

A well-preserved skeleton reveals the ecology and evolution of early carnivorous...

December 10, 2015

Image: Rowan Webb

UNE creates world’s first online human skeleton

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NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

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Professor Cathryn Newton studies Middle Devonian marine faunas (such as these brachiopods from 380-390 million years ago), whose fossils are lodged in a unit of bedrock in Central New York. Credit: Syracuse University

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