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Nature favours creatures in all sizes: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The researchers spent five years compiling and analyzing data about the size and biomass of every type of living organism on the planet -- from tiny one-celled organisms like soil archaea and bacteria to large organisms like blue whales and sequoia trees.
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Archaea become less diverse, more predictable in warming climate: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
An international research team led by Jizhong Zhou, PhD, director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, conducted a long-term experiment that discovered that climate change reduced diversity and significantly altered the community structure of soil archae
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Study sheds light on the origin of complex life forms
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics and may represent an evolutionary 'missing link' to more complex life forms such as animals
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