Yet, "we don't actually have many instances of fossils from this time period." Czaja said. Czaja said he knew of only four cases in the literature of microfossils dating to between 2.5 billion and ...

MARSH: It's a hop, skip and a jump over that ridge to where we're going. SEVIGNY: Oh, my gosh. These hills are full of microfossils from 200-million-year-old frogs, lizards and other small animals.

It's not like we are doomed to never be able to tell what the real microfossils are. We just have to get better at it." Story Source: Materials provided by Geological Society of America.

New experiments by geobiologists Julie Cosmidis, Christine Nims, and their colleagues, published today in Geology, could help settle arguments over which microfossils are signs of early life and ...

Microfossils have a tendency to muck with our timeline of when life formed on Earth. As their name suggests, these ancient rocks contain the tiny fossilized remains of protists and bacteria, and ...

New research published in Science Advances describes complex structures in rocks from Quebec, Canada, estimated to be between 3.75 and 4.28 billion years old, and of possible organic origin.

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 ...

Microfossils, possibly world's oldest, had biological characteristics Date: August 16, 2018 Source: Goldschmidt Conference Summary: Scientists have confirmed that the 3.4-billion-year-old Strelley ...

New analysis shows that the microfossils are indeed biological, and the find may have implications for the likelihood of extraterrestrial life. The title of Oldest Fossil is a controversial one.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs.Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old ...