Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

Scientists have discovered a microbe, 'Asgard', in Australia's Shark Bay that could potentially explain the evolution of ...

A team led by Brett Baker at the University of Texas at Austin has found that some Asgard archaea, the ancient microbial group most closely related to all complex life on Earth, carried the molecular ...

Scientists have discovered an archaea called ‘Asgard’ in the extremely high-salinity waters of Shark Bay, Australia, which ...

Compressing a type of single-celled microorganism makes it develop into a multicellular tissue-like structure with different cell types. This suggests that pressure can help drive key evolutionary ...