Fossils called stromatolites from Western Australia were created by microbes 3.48 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Ancient microbes left quite an impression on Earth. Scientists have found evidence that microbial communities built 3.45-billion-year-old stromatolites, which are layered, rock-like structures of ...

Tiny mounds touted as the earliest fossilized evidence of life on Earth may just be twisted rock. Found in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Greenland, the mounds strongly resemble cone-shaped microbial ...

The origin of life lies in unique ocean reefs, and Rosenstiel School scientists have developed an approach to help investigate them better. An article published in Geology this month reveals how Dr.

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers have provided evidence that ...

Earth has an astonishingly long geologic time span, but evidence of early life forms on our planet can still be seen today in the form of distinctive bodies of rock called stromatolites. The Wyoming ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the ...

We don’t entirely know when life arose on Earth, but there’s increasing evidence that it happened pretty quickly after the planet itself got started. Now, scientists have found some of the earliest ...

Two years ago, scientists announced that they had found evidence of life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks, suggesting that life arose on Earth extremely quickly. A new analysis of rocks from the same ...

Figure 1: As thermal water at 79.2°C reaches the surface, white calcium carbonate precipitates, forming a base for the proliferating red and green layered biofilms—woven bacterial mats (Illustration ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The first life on Earth left only weak traces, mostly in form of ...

VIRGINIA KEY, FL (November 17, 2006) – The origin of life lies in unique ocean reefs, and scientists from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have developed an ...