Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

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For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Nicknamed the Lagoon of Seven Colours, the lake features five collapsed cenotes – underground water reservoirs unique to Yucatán — and is home to an ancient population of stromatolites ...

Stromatolites, reef-like structures built by ancient cyanobacteria in shallow seas, document this evolution. Found across India — from the Vindhyas and Cuddapah Basin to the limestone ridges of the ...

When fossilized, the layered microbial structures are known as stromatolites. Some date as far back as 3.5 billion years ago, providing some of the earliest convincing traces of any kind of life ...

Stromatolites have been a major focus in the search for ancient microbial life, however, the organic carbon biosignatures of dolomitized stromatolites have not yet been fully characterized or ...

The stromatolites from the genus Conophyton cylindricus represent a datum for the Proterozoic (Meso to Neoproterozoic) on Earth. Their typical conical shape has been considered a result of a ...