Archaea, a type of single-celled life-form similar to bacteria, keep their DNA wrapped around proteins much in the same way as more complex organisms, researchers report in the Aug. 11 Science.

Defense systems found in all complex life, including the human body, came from primeval microbes known as 'Asgards.' ...

Archaea have inhabited Earth for nearly 4 billion of its 4.6 billion years in existence, making them possibly the oldest living life form. Early Earth is thought to have had little oxygen, but ...

First consumption of abundant life form, Archaea, discovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 03 / 120312140316.htm ...

Microbiologists have shown this for the very first time in a specific group of parasitic microbes, so-called DPANN archea. Their study shows that these archaea are very 'picky eaters', which might ...