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 ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– New fossil findings discovered by scientists at UC Santa Barbara challenge prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, according to an ...

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, ...

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 ...

Petrified Forest National Park in northern Arizona is famous for enormous crystalized trees and dinosaur bones dating back to the Triassic period. The park's hills are also full of tiny bones.

Fabian Weston makes videos of tiny organisms filmed under a microscope. One of his videos provided the missing piece to link 400-year-old fossils with living euglenoids. Euglenoids may be some of the ...

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 ...

Scientists studying rocks extracted from sediments deep beneath eastern Virginia say they may have found a new way to identify the locations of ancient, hidden craters blasted by extraterrestrial ...

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 ...