Though the study is yet to be peer reviewed, its conclusions help confine speculations over how long this one clonal organism has stood in place, which have ranged wildly from several thousand to more ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline. When you purchase through links on ...

perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Credit: Mars 160 Crew/The Mars Society Research at Mars analog sites in Utah and Nunavut focuses on lichen diversity, helping to predict lichen survival on Mars and aiding our understanding of these ...

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Tree of life (ToL) is a metaphorical tree that captures a simplified narrative of the evolutionary course and kinship among all living organisms of today. We have reconstructed a whole-proteome ToL ...