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Ever been made to feel small? Here’s why being petite is no bad thing.
Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an ‘RNA world.’
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Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes, viruses and prions existing today.
Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms without nuclei and are commonly known as bacteria.
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A new ‘rule book’ for naming genomically sequenced bacteria is a boon for science.
The world’s smallest frog can fit on a dime.
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Scientists have identified the world’s smallest animal – for now. It could be possible smaller creatures exist that have not yet been discovered.