In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have ...

This particular combination of fossils and minerals is particularly telling. Dolomite dissolves in acidic environments, and ...

the researchers could distinguish between natural rock features and microbial fossils. They also identified dolomite, a dry mineral that can only collect in acidic environments when a prokaryote ...

Prokaryotes are organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles. Prokaryotes are divided into two distinct groups: the bacteria and the archaea, which scientists believe have unique ...