Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons.
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WFS News: 3.5 billion-year-old fossil is oldest ever sign of life identified by scientists
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock from Western Australia, scientists have identified the oldest life forms ever known.The evidence consists of cylindrical and thread-like shapes thought to be fossilised microbes from the early days of life on Earth. The “microfossils” have been known for over two decades, […]
WFS News: Scientists reveals an event of active ‘drip’ tectonics
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study of Earth’s physical characteristics and behaviours. Decades later, successor researchers at U of T and Istanbul Technical University have determined […]