First up on our list of oldest fossils ever found are the microfossils of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt. The rock sequence ...

These hills are full of microfossils from 200-million-year-old frogs, lizards and other small animals. Marsh says park paleontologists never used to pay attention to the little things, ...

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 ...

Microfossils may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists.

Microfossils refer to a type of fossil that is so small, it can only be perceived with a microscope. These microfossils can help us understand when and how early life forms developed essential ...

Researchers believe they have found the world’s oldest microfossils in Quebec, Canada, which could provide evidence of one of the oldest life forms on Earth.

A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth. Called the ...

Damaged microfossils have been observed at other impact sites, but Edwards says that scientists had attributed the microscopic carnage to poor preservation, not the impacts.

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.

New analysis shows that the microfossils are indeed biological, and the find may have implications for the likelihood of extraterrestrial life. The early years of Earth are a murky mess, so we don ...

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 ...