In order to analyze these microfossils, a pioneering method of analysis has been developed by a research team led by Akizumi Ishida from Tohoku University, in collaboration with experts from the ...

Microfossils found around the world contain specimens that don’t look like modern cells. By analyzing certain bacteria in the Dead Sea that don’t contain cell walls, a new study theorizes how ...

News Release 16-Aug-2018 Microfossils, possibly world's oldest, had biological characteristics Peer-Reviewed Publication Goldschmidt Conference ...

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.

Chemical nature of the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool microfossils. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2018; 37 DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.1817 ...

Microfossils shed light on the long fossil record of euglenoids A 400-million-year evolutionary history Peer-Reviewed Publication Universiteit Utrecht Faculteit Geowetenschappen ...

Iron oxide-containing tubes from the Nuvvuagittuq belt hydrothermal vent deposits. Matthew Dodd Scientists may have uncovered microfossils containing evidence of microbes that lived at least 3.77 ...

The team compared the Strelley Pool filaments with similar structures made by modern bacteria, as well as with 1.9-billion-year-old microfossils from Canada's Gunflint Formation in Ontario, Canada.

The oldest microfossils previously reported were found in Western Australia in 2013 and dated to around 3.4 billion years ago. But questions have been raised over the credibility of those finds.

(CN) ­— Not only did life originate on Earth billions of years ago, but researchers discovered faint traces of ancient marine microbes in the Barberton Greenstone Belt of South Africa, 5,900 feet ...

Ultrahigh-resolution imaging of biogenic phosphorus and molybdenum in palaeoproterozoic gunflint microfossils. Scientific Reports, 2024; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72191-8 ...

Fast-forward 70 years, and new microfossils have pushed that timeline well into the Archean Eon. Most assume that the first cells were likely simpler than the 1 to 2 micrometer-wide bacteria we ...