In research labs all over the world, geologists spend countless hours looking through the microscope identifying and counting ...

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 ...

If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the oldest microfossils ever found. The discovery comprises tiny filaments and tubes formed by bacteria that lived on iron ...

The rock is dissolved in acid to isolate the microfossils, which are then deposited onto ITO glass. Credit: Scientific ...

To find ancient evidence of euglenoids, van de Schootbrugge and his colleagues looked at microfossils — teensy fossils that are only a few millimeters in size. "We worked on a hunch that these ...

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 ...

By analyzing microfossils — fossils about the size of a thumbnail — within the limestone, researchers found that the tiny ancient organisms preserved in the stone were from Europe, according ...

In 2012, Bas van de Schootbrugge, then at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and Paul Strother from Boston College, while working on a variety of problematic microfossils in sediments ...

The story of life on Earth can’t be told without photosynthesis, the process by which plants (and some other lifeforms) convert sunlight into chemical energy. Now, a team of researchers has ...

The park's hills are also full of tiny bones. Paleontologists are taking a close look at these microfossils and say they, too, hold the secrets of the past. Member station KNAU's Melissa Sevigny ...