By analyzing microfossils — fossils about the size of a thumbnail — within the limestone, researchers found that the tiny ancient organisms preserved in the stone were from Europe, according ...

Scientists may have uncovered microfossils containing evidence of microbes that lived at least 3.77 billion ago, according to a study published yesterday (March 2) in Nature. “If indeed their analyses ...

In research labs all over the world, geologists spend countless hours looking through the microscope identifying and counting ...

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For 135 years, there’s been just a single species belonging to this group. Now, a second has been discovered in western Queensland. Palaeontologist don’t just dig up dinosaur bones – they ...