New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

But scientists have found that a more complex organism — a single-celled alga with a nucleus — can do it, too, thanks to a newly identified piece of cellular architecture. They're calling it ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Earth’s earliest forms of life, such as microbes, cyanobacteria, sponges and seafloor-dwelling organisms, populated the oceans. After the end of the Neoproterozoic came the rise of more complex ...

In brief Asgard archaea are a group of microorganisms discovered just ten years ago. They represent a link between bacteria, archaea and complex organisms, such as plants and animals. ETH researchers ...