Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...

This new research provides another clue about this bizarre and long-dead organism — and deepens the mystery, too. More on weird life: Scientists Modified Genes In Mice to Give Them Traits of ...

Multicellular life forms that emerge from the cells of a dead organism suggest that a "third state" lies beyond life and death. The discovery has raised fresh questions about what it means to die ...

This was a major paradigm shift, noted Cann. “We’ve moved from thinking about live organisms degrading the dead ones to dead organisms encoding [their] own breakdown after death.” Cann and his team ...

A comprehensive understanding of this pattern of succession enables scientists to determine approximately how long an organism has been dead. Developmental data from primary colonizers are also ...

By comparing how much carbon-14 there is in the dead organism with the amount in a living one, the age of the dead organism can be determined.