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Did Life Arise “Remarkably Soon” After Earth Became Habitable?
4+ day, 7+ min ago (279+ words) The article begins this way: New genetics research—entirely based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations of genomes—now places LUCA “astonishingly early” in earth’s history. That’s surprising in the evolutionary view, given how complex life is and how uninhabitable early…...
Fort Worth Zoo celebrates record-breaking endangered Gharial crocodile hatchings
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (192+ words) Ask your smart speaker to play One Hundred Point Three Jack F M on Audacy Crocodile hatching from an egg The Gharial crocodile won’t remain endangered for long if the Fort Worth Zoo has anything to say about it. For…...
Captive Crocodiles Released Into the Wild Did Something Researchers Didn???t Expect
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (620+ words) Captive-reared crocodiles adapted well after release, but a translocated wild crocodile showed strong homing instincts, offering new insights for conservation planning. A new study suggests that saltwater crocodiles born or raised in captivity may successfully adapt to life in the…...
Skeletal remains [IMAGE] | EurekAlert! Science News Releases
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (25+ words) Skeletal remains (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The CPL-2a skeleton in the trench. More on this News Release Ice Age origins of one of humanity’s oldest drug habits...
Study Says 'Poop Explosion' Helped Start Complex Life on Earth
1+ week, 19+ min ago (382+ words) Scientists believe a massive release of fossilized animal poop may have helped trigger the explosion of complex life on our planet. Save your scatological jokes as you read this next story. We've got enough poop puns in it already. Scientists…...
From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years
1+ week, 2+ day ago (193+ words) From Dr. Selim, “It came as a big surprise to us that one of the earliest life forms on Earth — evolutionarily older and simpler cells — had already developed communication structures regulated by calcium signals similar to those found in the…...
Significant magnitude 6.0 quake hits 150 km east of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, after midnight
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Outside/In: Cosmic pizza earthquake
1+ week, 2+ day ago (241+ words) When an Outside/In listener asked the team to weigh in on a debate between him and his wife, perhaps we should have hesitated. But it was too good to resist. “We have eighteen-year old twin boys, and sometimes they…...
The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research
1+ week, 3+ day ago (503+ words) This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Source In my previous article, I describe how a recent paper proposing chemical pathways to life’s origin recycles failed models and…...
Ancient “living fossils” may reveal how complex life began
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1115+ words) At first glance, stromatolites and their close relatives, microbial mats, can look like little more than dark, ancient rocks. In reality, they are densely packed, layered communities built by microbes. Billions of years ago, before animals and plants existed, stromatolites…...