Earth's oldest fossils may be billions of years old—although such claims are highly controversial. These kinds of discoveries usually start with finding what appear to be preserved outlines of ...

Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. A collaborative research team from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo may have provided some ...

Images of the newly discovered microfossil from the 1.9-billion-year-old Gunflint Formation. Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. In contrast ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration Using a revolutionary new imaging process, ...

Scientists have confirmed that the 3.4-billion-year-old Strelley Pool microfossils had chemical characteristics similar to modern bacteria. This all but confirms their biological origin and ranks them ...

Light microscope images of euglenoid cysts from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (approx. 200 million years old) in the Schandelah-1 core in Germany (left) and from Triassic sediments in Winterswijk, ...

An Indian geologist discovered a microfossil that is said to be 2 billion years old. A paleontologist is pictured uncovering a fossil in central Bulgaria on June 07, 2017. Getty Images A geologist in ...

A new study could help settle arguments over which microfossils are signs of early life and which are not. Fossilized spheres and filaments--two common bacterial shapes--made of organic carbon ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Transitional moments are often hard to pinpoint in evolutionary history. Because changes to ...

Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old. If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the oldest ...

The Gunflint Formation, which straddles Lake Superior's northwestern shore, contains a treasure trove of geological clues about the evolution of life. After a recent geological reassessment of this ...

Earth’s oldest fossils may be billions of years old – although such claims are highly controversial. These kinds of discoveries usually start with finding what appear to be preserved outlines of ...