For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been ... examination showed this was not the case. The chemical composition of rock samples from inside the burrows showed that whatever ...

Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

By examining the territory's archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, our new book fits together the missing puzzle pieces ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

Typically, to understand the chemical makeup of a cave ... Sebree believes that when these rocks shattered, since calcite is weaker than the limestone also comprising the cave, the calcite worked ...