The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Brinicles, filmed forming in situ for the first time in 2011, were presented as fingers of death . But Julyan Cartwright and others observ...

Thirty-fifth in a  series  of notes and comments on The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Chapter 26: Yeti crab page 355: (marginal not...

cells are powered not by chemical reactions, but by a kind of electricity, specifically by a difference in the concentration of protons (th...

The discovery of an unusual hybrid virus living in one of the harshest environments on the planet suggests a solution to the conundrum of ho...

Armen Mulkidjanian makes the case that life as we know it originated in freshwater thermal springs not unlike Darwin's warm little p...

Those who have looked at the night sky—not the dim remnant visible in cities, but the bright complexity seen in high, dark places—can apprec...

The picture painted by Russell and Martin is striking indeed. The last common ancestor of all life was not a free-living cell at all, but ...

When you're young, all evolution lies before you...If you compare yourself with the limitations that came afterwards, if you think how o...

[John D. Sutherland] has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life — how the build...

Organisms rather like sponges may have been the first multicellular animals some 850 million years ago. (see also: Sponge larvae: 'Your...

Traces of [multicellular] animal life have been found in rocks dating back 635 million years . research claims there are at least 361 intel...

John Whitefield considers the woodpecker at the start of his Blogging 'The Origin' . Did Darwin know about the Woodpecker's fel...

The stage was set for life probably 4.4 billion years ago, but I don’t know if the actors were present. -- Stephen J. Mojzsis, quoted in an ...