Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the extraordinary leap toward plants, animals, and other complex organisms. Solving that ancient mystery may also help determine whether complex life could emerge on worlds beyond Earth.
Source: ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
- 80,000-year-old “arrowheads” rewrite human history
- A coffee-table-size scorpion roamed Earth before forests existed
- 1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative
- 324-million-year-old fossil reveals how insects conquered land
- “One-in-a-million” sea creature fossil preserves soft tissue for 450 million years
- Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite
- Tiny 1.7-billion-year-old fossils could reveal how complex life began
- A new Ice Age species was hiding in la brea tar pits fossils for decades
- A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster
- Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones
