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

Geology Page - July 29, 2015

Ancient alga knew how to survive on land before it left water and evolved into the first plant

Enough oxygen on Earth long before animals rose

Rock salt holds the key to a paradigm shift

Comet craters — literal melting pots for life on Earth

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

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

Paleontologist Presents Origin of Life Theory

Geology Page - October 30, 2013

Enough oxygen on Earth long before animals rose

Geology Page - January 6, 2016

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

Geology Page - November 18, 2016

Reconstructed ancient ocean reveals secrets about the origin of life

Geology Page - April 26, 2014

Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory.

Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

Geology Page - November 21, 2017

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

Geology Page - May 10, 2017

Life on Earth likely started 4.1 billion years ago, much earlier...

Geology Page - October 19, 2015

Modern microbial ecosystems provide window to early life on Earth

Geology Page - February 5, 2016

How and why single cell organisms evolved into multicellular life

Geology Page - April 26, 2016

Ancient Minerals: Which Gave Rise to Life?

Geology Page - November 25, 2013

Surprising source for ancient life biomarker found

Geology Page - October 20, 2015

Oxygen-starved oceans held back life’s recovery after the ‘Great Dying’

Geology Page - February 18, 2016

When life returned after a volcanic mass extinction

Geology Page - April 9, 2016

Rare meteorites challenge our understanding of the solar system

Geology Page - January 24, 2017

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Geology Page - May 20, 2018

Oxygen was present in the atmosphere much earlier than previously assumed

Geology Page - February 20, 2016

Dust, Iron, and Life

Geology Page - November 10, 2015

The Origin of Life: RNA World Deep Beneath the Surface

Geology Page - September 9, 2016

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

Geology Page - January 3, 2018

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