Climate-changing microbes may have caused the biggest mass extinction in history 252m years ago, scientists believe. Volcanic eruptions had previously been blamed for the sudden loss of 90% of all ...

The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum ...

This unexpected flexibility in genetic decoding was observed in Methanosarcina acetivorans, a methane-producing organism from the Archaea domain. Instead of adhering to the conventional role of the ...

Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth's history. Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on ...