On a high plateau in northwestern Argentina, a cluster of turquoise lagoons has quietly rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the earliest stirrings of life. Hidden in one of the driest ...

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Stromatolites date to a time before oxygen. These stony structures hold the fossilised remains of cyanobacteria, a sort of ancient ancestor to us all; a single-celled organism that produced much of ...

A team from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow has begun a detailed study of stromatolites, the layered structures built by primitive cyanobacteria more than a billion years ago.

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What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...

For the first time in more than 60 years, researchers have found a new kind of chlorophyll, the pigment used by both plants and bacteria to catch sunlight and convert it into energy by means of ...

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Boulder, Colo., USA: Stromatolites are the earliest geological record of life on Earth. These curious biotic structures are made of algae carpets growing toward the light and precipitating carbonates.

Mounds of stromatolites flourish at the bottom of a lagoon in Argentina's Puna de Atacama. Studying satellite images of Argentina’s Puna de Atacama desert, CU Boulder geologist Brian Hynek noted ...