@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs. Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of primitive bacteria. These ancient microbes are likely cyanobacteria, but they are unusually large and have weird shapes protruding from them, […]
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WFS News: Palaeontologists found Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago
October 2nd, 2022 Riffin
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green […]