Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.
A strange meteorite seen over Sri Lanka in late 2012 led to a claim that still sparks debate today. In a controversial paper ...
For years, a set of tiny structures locked inside Brazilian limestone served as one of paleontology’s most tantalizing clues: ...
Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...
A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
MONTREAL — 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 ...