After their first appearance 3.48 Ga ago, stromatolites dominated the planet as the sole living carbonate factory for almost three billion years. Stromatolites are also partially responsible for ...

Lee Stocking Island is one of them. The organisms are stromatolites. These structures that resemble rocks are one of the oldest living life forms on our planet. Stromatolites have been around for ...

They were the first to describe the similarity between currently living red biofilms and fossilized stromatolites. This research significantly enhances our understanding of the geobiological ...

Ashley Martin of Northumbria University. The team examined ancient stromatolites preserved in southern Zimbabwe, which date back more than 2.5 billion years. Stromatolites are layered biochemical ...

Living in layers below these light-loving ... the mats bind together and harden. Stromatolites, which continue to form today in the coastal waters of northwest Australia and South Africa, create ...