Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) some 2.4 billion years ago established the oxygen-rich atmosphere that many living things ...

Scientists assumed most forms of life before the Great Oxidation Event didn't metabolize oxygen—but recent research suggests ...

setting the stage for the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE). Today, Earth’s atmosphere is composed of approximately 21% oxygen, but this has not always been the case. More than 2.5 billion years ago ...

The intricate layers in the formation represent a turning point in Earth's history known as the Great Oxygenation Event. From this start, a further two billion years of oxygenation enabled a rapid ...

Queensland University of Technology and UQ -- focused on how microorganisms responded to the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) about 2.33 billion years ago, which changed Earth's atmosphere from ...

University of Queensland scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

The study focused on how microorganisms responded to the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) 2.33 billion years ago, a pivotal shift that transformed Earth's atmosphere to one that allows humans to ...