These 3.77-billion-year-old fossils discovered in Canada could be earliest evidence of life on Earth The microfossils discovered along the coast of Hudson's Bay in Northern Quebec have 'big ...

Microfossils may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists.

That makes these new microfossils a startling 4.2 billion years old, if proven correct. The discovery that the oldest life on Earth may have formed so early is exciting for a number of reasons.

The fungal microfossils were found in a remote part of the Northwest Territories. Elizabeth Turner, a professor of sedimentary geology at Laurentian University was part of the team that discovered ...

The microfossils were discovered on coastal rocks, along the Quebec shoreline in Canada. And they're thought to have been formed up to 4.2 billion years ago. But some scientists are sceptical.

Discovery of new types of microfossils may answer an age-old scientific question Date: September 6, 2022 Source: Tohoku University Summary: The Gunflint Formation, which straddles Lake Superior's ...

"We worked on a hunch that these microfossils could be cysts of euglenoids, but no one had ever seen a euglenoid make a cyst in nature or in a lab," van de Schootbrugge said. Dating back 400 ...

Scientists uncovered the origin of the oldest known surviving tombstone in the US, according to a new study. Here’s what it says about early Jamestown, Virginia.

An underwater volcano erupted 239 million years ago in what’s now Italy. Molten rock gushed out of the seafloor. But the seawater cooled the lava on contact, freezing it into round blobs of ...

810 Million-Year-Old Microfossils Are Ancient Example of Mineralized Tissue (7 of 8) ...

Microfossils up to almost 4.3 billion years old found in Canada of microbes are similar to the bacteria that thrive today around sea floor hydrothermal vents and may represent the oldest-known ...

Microfossils, believed to be 3.4 billion years old, have been discovered in the Pilbara. Researchers from WA and the UK uncovered the fossils in sandstone at Strelley Pool, west of Marble Bar.