The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth.

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

A new phylum of microbes has been discovered thriving in one of the least explored parts of Earth—the deep Critical Zone, a ...

Rediscovery of ancient velvet worm species in India after 111 years sheds light on evolutionary history and biogeographic mysteries.

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes that link them together.. | Earth And The Environment ...

A fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in North China's Inner Mongolia ...

An American team has identified a new group of microbes buried up to more than 65 feet (20 meters) underground. These ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient cycling.