Scientists warn that free-living amoebae may be an underappreciated public health threat, capable of causing deadly infections and shielding other dangerous microbes from water treatment. Climate ...

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Earth harbors organisms far older than humans, with some living for thousands of years. These ancient life forms, from ...

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New research suggests Earth’s first complex life stayed close to the seafloor and depended on oxygen to survive.

When we contemplate longevity in the natural world, most of us think of thousand-year-old trees or perhaps centenarian tortoises. But beneath the frigid waters of Antarctica lives an organism that may ...

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All life on Earth can be traced back to a last universal common ancestor (LUCA) that evolved some 4.2 billion years ago. While the true nature of this organism—as well as the circumstances of its ...

It was older than the Roman Empire, the Egyptian pyramids and Christianity. Then someone cut it down. Now known as Prometheus, the bristlecone pine tree that found its home on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's ...

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Mammals, for instance, differ dramatically in their maximal lifespans—from the tiny forest shrew, which lives only one or two years, to the bowhead whale, capable of living for more than 200 years.