organisms

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For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The discovery highlights how living organisms can create highly organized systems without conscious planning or measurement.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

The Ediacaran period occurred before the Cambrian explosion, a major evolutionary turning point when rising oxygen levels helped complex organisms diversify rapidly across Earth's oceans.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

If those constants were even slightly different, water, blood, and other life-supporting fluids could behave so differently that complex organisms might never have emerged at all.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

We are descended from the organisms that did well.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan