03/10/2026
A Living Spark of Early Life
A rare single-celled microbe from Adriatic seafloor sediment has revealed a new branch on the tree of life—and hints that Earth’s first complex cells were more metabolically flexible than anyone guessed.
A rare single-celled microbe from Adriatic seafloor sediment has revealed a new branch on the tree of life—and hints that Earth’s first complex cells were more metabolically flexible than anyone guessed.