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 ...

In other words, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, and other dead organisms, free or attached to aggregates -- the so-called marine snow -- travel through the water column to the deep-sea bed, where their ...

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 ...

It was apparent that the life there was completely dependent upon the vents since only the remains of dead organisms surrounded inactive vents. Scientists collected water from the vents and later ...

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 ...

If conditions are not favourable for the process of decomposition, dead organisms decay slowly or not at all. These organisms build up and, if compressed over millions of years, can form fossil ...