Big and beautiful microfossils have been extracted from rocks that are more than 3 billion years old. They offer tantalizing hints about the antiquity of the eukaryote lineage of organisms that ...

Plate tectonics, the dominant process shaping Earth as we know it today, may not have existed throughout Earth's history. Indeed, the interior of our planet (the mantle) cools progressively, by ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

The Archaean is a geologic eon of Earth history spanning approximately 4.0 to 2.5 billion years ago, following the Hadean and preceding the Proterozoic. It is characterized by high heat flow, a ...

A diagrammatic representation of the Earth in the Archaean showing subducted ocean floor carrying its chemical signature into the deep mantle. The signature which includes water and chlorine is ...

Archaean is a totally new game concept trying to create a new type of online environment called MOW - Massive Online World. It will be somewhat like MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying ...

A single-celled organism found off the coast of Japan could offer us a glimpse of one of our most distant ancestors. The microbe may explain one of the great mysteries of evolutionary history: the ...