At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

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Next time your bicycle has a flat tyre, find a coelacanth. These ‘living fossils’, dating back 400 million years to before the dawn of the dinosaurs, are an essential part of an African puncture ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemi ...

We’ve always been fascinated by the deep ocean, and this time, we set out to learn more about one of its most legendary creatures - the Greenland shark. These sharks can live for over 400 years, ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

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Laurent Ballesta is a renowned French underwater photographer, biologist and deep diver, and explorer, celebrated for his ...

Some 6. 2 million years ago, the Red Sea basin was not recognizable as the deep blue waters of the ocean it is now.

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