<![CDATA[Life may have originated more than once on Earth...and today's living cells might have two separate origins.]]>Life may have originated more than once on Earth...and today's living cells might have two separate origins.

Fascinating new research traces life's likely beginnings to a hydrothermal vent environment.

https://www.hhu.de/en/news/two-origins-of-life

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Had a whole horror video game about it in the nineties.

So I'm prepared to nod along.

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Very probably, given how many times things have evolved into crabs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7d7erz80o

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.wales/users/Walrus/statuses/117133488875415346https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.wales/users/Walrus/statuses/117133488875415346Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:26:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Life may have originated more than once on Earth...and today's living cells might have two separate origins. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:00 GMT]]>A big mystery is how life got started without the enzymes essential to modern biology. One idea is that metals + phosphate provided the kick. Bacteria and archaea then developed independent paths to a living cell.

Who knows what other life forms didn't make it?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef3128

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