Archive for March, 2018

WFS News: Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Take a good look at this photo: It shows you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth. The bubbles were photographed and analyzed by researchers studying early life on Earth. Microbes are […]

WFS News: Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world’s most iconic animal families — namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years. The team of scientists-which included researchers from McMaster, the […]