Archive for February 19th, 2016

Eoleptonema apex : Not Fossils but Chert

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev@ A team of scientists including Carnegie’s Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-rich rock called chert found in Western Australia are the planet’s oldest fossils. The purported fossils have been a heated scientific controversy for many years. […]