Scientists have developed a new method to detect ancient microbial life in Martian gypsum, potentially guiding future Mars ...

Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...

Scientists may have uncovered a promising new method to detect ancient life on Mars. A recent study suggests that microbial ...

This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to have ended a period during which the Mediterranean was a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted ...

A Star Trek-style life signs detector has successfully detected ancient microbial life in gypsum rocks similar to rocks on ...

“The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean,” said Sellam. “This led to rapid evaporation, causing the sea to become hypersaline ...

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which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Gypsum deposits form quickly, making them an excellent medium for fossils—the fossils ...

Scientists have tested a laser-powered mass spectrometer on Earth to detect fossilized microbes in minerals similar to those on Mars.

With the main source of water to the Mediterranean Sea cut off, it shrank and dried — an event known as the Messinian salinity crisis. Massive deposits of minerals, formed from the salts of ...

On Earth, researchers have discovered fossilized microbial filaments in deposits dating back to the Messinian salinity crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried up. These structures, ...