What stabilized and strengthened the oldest, most robust blocks of continental crust billions of years ago during the Archaean eon has long been a mystery. It seems that a surprise helping hand ...

The Archaean eon was a time when Earth's atmosphere and ocean were devoid of gaseous oxygen, but also when the first organisms to generate energy from sunlight evolved.

Archaean is a totally new game concept trying to create a new type of online environment called MOW - Massive Online World. It will be somewhat like MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying ...

A diagrammatic representation of the Earth in the Archaean showing subducted ocean floor carrying its chemical signature into the deep mantle. The signature which includes water and chlorine is ...

However, the fossil record of early life is extremely fragmented, and its quality significantly deteriorates further back in time towards the Archaean period, more than 2.5 billion years ago, when the ...

Animals can and do eat Archaea.Ophryotrocha labronica, an "archivory" worm of the Dorvilleids family ANDREW THURBER, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY Deep-sea worms living near Costa Rica and off the western ...

While Earth wasn't exactly the best place to set up home during the Archaean era, life still managed to thrive in its oxygen-free ancient oceans. Though much of this period remains a mystery, the ...